Tim Chase wrote:
> In Vim7, the :s command added a "n" flag to not actually perform
> the substitute, but just report the number of changes made.
>
> However, it seems that if 'modifiable' is off, one can't do
> something like
>
> :%s/foo/bar/gn
>
> to count items in the non-modifiable file, as it gives
>
> "E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off"
>
> which seems a bit counter-intuitive, as one's not actually making
> changes.
>
> [n] Report the number of matches, do not actually substitute.
>
> I don't know if this qualifies as a bug (if nomodifiable is set,
> a :s/foo/bar/n[g] command should be allowed), a pecularity, or
> "desired" behavior, but I didn't see anything in the docs for
> s_flags about the matter one way or the other.
I don't get this, it works as expected for me.
I have no idea how you can get this error message with the 'n' flag.
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