Thursday, August 2, 2012

Re: buffer size

> > What ways are there to check the buffer size?
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> > getfsize()
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> > redir @"
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> > execute "silent normal! g\<C-g>"
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> > redir END
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> There's the line2byte() function as well. I assume you want size in bytes?


line2byte(line('$') + 1) is good for my purposes - I am building different backup procedures for different buffer sizes - line('$') could be acceptable for this as well, but in general the result on the modified or unnamed buffer is better than checking a file on disk.
 
Thanks
rockybalboa4

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