Christian Brabandt wrote: > > 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 > >
Thanks a lot Christian. Indeed that is not exactly what I ask for, but is very very close. That shows me the number of lines. Anyone knows how to "program" such a behavior? I have never browsed through the vim source code, I wonder if one would get inspired or totally confused... -- View this message in context: http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/Vim-count-selection-and-put-in-statusline-tp3390411p3391060.html Sent from the Vim - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
