Re: counting words in highlighted regions

On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 15:59:54 +0100 Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:

> Hi Gevisz!
>
> On So, 04 Jan 2015, Gevisz wrote:
>
> > I have a file, in certain regions of which
> > I should count a total number of words.
> >
> > Using <g C-g> does not allow to automate this process
> > as it shows a number of words in a highlighted region
> > in a "message row" of vim, which I have to read and
> > retype it to calculator.
> >
> > Is there any way to get a number of words in a highlighted
> > region to the "+ register? Or, even better, to add
> > (or concatinate via the plus sign) a number of words
> > in a highlighted region to the number already in the "+ register?
>
> You mean visual selected region?
>
> Something like this, perhaps?
> :'<,'>s/\<\%V\w\+\>\@=\%V\>/\=setreg('a', @a+1)/gn
>
> This stores the count of all words within the visual selected region and
> stores it in the 'a' register. The 'a' register should be initialized to
> a number, that will be added up.

It works as desired. Thank you.

> Best,
> Christian

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