On Fri, February 18, 2011 2:10 am, carlosp wrote: > > Dear all, I would like to know if there is some non-baroque way of, when > doing a selection of some text, set in the status line just the number of > characters in the selection (and of course, when one modifies the > selection, > as moving the coursor in the visual mode) the status line should be > updated > automatically. The solutions that occurred to me involve using external > commands (like wc -l) and then sending that to vim, each time I move the > selection etc. Does anyone knows a clean way of doing such a thing?
It is not exactly what you asked for, but when you set 'showcmd', Vim already displays the size of the visual selection. See :h 'sc' regards, Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
