I will start by saying I am posting this as I cannot find feature in KDE that has this ability and how I come to posting idea.

In social media all things has a buffer for posting, from twitter to chatbox in Youtube, have a character count limit can post at 1 time.

My issue that brought me to posting is, I wish to post a cut and paste but have no clue live how many characters i am highlighting before the cut.

This feature may exist in KDE and I may have missed it. which if I did hopefully I find ability at best.

On with IDEA…WHILE HOLDING DOWN ONE BUTTON(hotkey) on the keyboard and clicking mouse to cut some text to paste to a social media platform with limited buffer:

A TOOL TIP pops up showing the character amount as you highlight the text. That way you can know exactly how many characters your are highlighting to be posted to social media platform you are using at the time and if it will fit that social media platforms buffer size.

PS: not to be redundant but hot key allow you only invoke it when need count without changing cut and paste so not annoying when do not need a count.

Best Regards