Re: Measuring lines

On 2013-06-09 19:57, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> I have a loooong line "of text" (it is not really text...) with a
> bunch of pipe symbols ("|") in it. The distance between the bars
> differ.
> And I am to lazy to do the error prone job to count the spaces...
>
> Is there a easy way to ask vim to do that for me?
> Best would be if it would put the count of spaces right below
> the according "|"....
>
> May be certain trick with search and replace ???

I'm not sure I follow the format of the file. Perhaps some
(shortened) example data would help. That said, I don't know if
something like

:s/|/&/gn

would help to let you know how many "|" characters are on a line
(the usefulness of this may be contingent on your 'report' setting,
which I find most helpful to set to 0 rather than the default of 2).

-tim


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