Saturday, February 20, 2010

RE: Counting Lines between two markers

zzapper wrote:
> :'a,'bs/^// will count the lines between two markers a and b
> but is there any more elegant way, one that is not seen as an
> edit?

I would be inclined to just add 'n' to count the hits (does not
attempt to change the buffer):
:'a,'bs/^//n

However, you could fiddle with things like:
:echo line("'b") - line("'a") + 1

John

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