On 24/11/11 5:32 PM, Christian Brabandt wrote:
On Thu, November 24, 2011 5:56 am, Ben Schmidt wrote:
Hi, guys!
Looking for some Vim voodoo a little bit outside my areas of expertise!
I'd like to put the number of characters in the current paragraph (i.e.
area
between empty lines) in my ruler, or have it displayed when I press a key
(either
will do). That will save me having to exit normal mode and do vipg<C-g>
and then
scan the status line for the relevant count every time I'm interested in
it. I'm
editing 7-bit text, so number of bytes would be just as good.
I'm in a bit of a hurry and would just love it if one of you could chuck
me an
answer that I can copy and paste!
I think either of those two will work:
:'{,'}s/./&/gn
or even:
:echo eval(join(map(getline("'{", "'}"),
\ 'len(split(v:val, ''\zs''))'), '+'))
Those two won't include the line-ending bytes when counting (as g<C-G>
does. If you need this, you can possibly also map something using the
line2byte() function:
:echo line2byte(line("'}")) - line2byte(line("'{")+1)
Thanks, Christian.
I'm using the last one, as I like the linebreaks counted (at least for
now) as they will be turned into spaces when the lines are joined (which
is what will happen before they are pasted into a textbox with a
character limit!). I'm sure the second last one could easily squeeze in
a +1 to count the linebreaks, too, though.
Ben.
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