Re: Vim count selection and put in statusline

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
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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...
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