How do I find long lines in a large text file?
(I want to be able to define long lines arbitrarily.
For default, lets say, it is 80 characters.)
You can use the \%c (":help /\%c") token to ensure a columnar
position. Thus, you could do something like
:match Error /\%80c.*/
Or, alternatively, you could do something like
:match Error /^.\{80,}/
The same methods work in other places (in :g// commands and :s//
commands, as well as in regular searches), so if you wanted to
comment out all the lines in your shell-script that have >80
characters (plus/minus one, due to my forgetfulness regarding the
fence-posting of various operators), you could do
:%s/^.\{81\}/#&
or you could indent all those lines:
:g/\%80c/>
You can read about these tokens at
:help /\%c
:help /\{
HTH,
-tim
