editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

Tue Sep 26 01:58:55 UTC 2017

On September 25, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> to the best of my knowledge, and I will check on this lol. word
> count  is all  I can recall.

Huh, I was nearly certain that WP had a character-count
functionality, but pulling it up, I can't seem to find it.  Granted,
I'm trying to dredge WP commands from the mid 90s when last I used
it as my primary editor for high-school papers. But still, I was nigh
certain it was there and can't find it now.  Sorry for the
distraction.

-tim