While editing text files (tabular text, for example), it is often useful to see how many lines are selected. Similar is the use case for showing how many characters in a line are selected. The latter is already available by enabling 'show word count' in configure > appearance. However, no such option exists to see how many lines are selected. The only way to determine that is to enable line numbers in the border, note down the starting and ending line number of the selection and calculate manually. It will be useful if Kate/KWrite can display the selected line count in the status bar.
Dear user, this wish list item is now closed, as it wasn't touched in the last two years and no contributor stepped up to implement it. The Kate/KTextEditor team is small and we can just try to keep up with fixing bugs. Therefore wishes that show no activity for a years or more will be closed from now on to keep at least a bit overview about 'current' wishs of the users. If you want your feature to be implemented, please step up to provide some patch for it. If you think it is really needed, you can reopen your request, but keep in mind, if no new good arguments are made and no people get attracted to help out to implement it, it will expire in a year again. We have a nice website https://kate-editor.org that provides all the information needed to contribute, please make use of it. e.g. see the information at https://kate-editor.org/join-us/ for details Greetings Christoph Cullmann