Re: Width of the visual selection

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Maxim Kim wrote:
>
> Is there a way one can get visual selection width without corrupting
> registers?
>
> Say I have 'dummy text' visually selected.
>
> Using registers I can find the length by using:
>
> y
> echo len(getreg('"'))
>
> I thought strpart with col('`<') and col('`>') would work but it
> doesn't as col('`<') returns 0.

you must use the non-backtick mark for col()

echo col("'<")

Regards,
Jürgen

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