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> 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
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