Re: Display current column in statusline

On 2014–01–26 Marco wrote:

> how can I display the current column in the status line?
>
> Having read :h statusline I found %c which looks promising, but it
> counts bytes and not characters. I'd like to have the column
> separated by characters, not bytes.

Here's a solution (thanks to benjifisher¹):

:let &statusline = "%{strlen(substitute(strpart(getline('.'), 0, col('.')), '.', 'x', 'g'))}"

It grabs the line, trims it to the cursor column, replaces all
characters with a 1-byte character, and counts the length of the
string:

Marco

¹ http://stackoverflow.com/a/21367789/1013470

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