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Re:Boring Problems Need Attention Too by asciimov on Thursday June 17, 2021 @12:44PM (#27541620)
I'd rather see an explanation behind the issue rather than a complaint about people not working on boring stuff because a bunch of text editors can't agree on a word count.

I remember taking a typing class some 25 years ago and being told a that a word count is typically every 5 characters. That way someone doesn't pad out their word count by using lots of small words.

Re:Boring Problems Need Attention Too by Pet_Ant on Thursday June 17, 2021 @12:59PM (#27541797)
> typing class ... word count is typically every 5 characters.

That might be only within the context of "words per minute" in typing. I mean otherwise Finnish typists would be terribly slow.