Re: Current Position

I tried vim --clean I don't see anything happen ?

On Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 1:25:47 PM UTC-4 Christian Brabandt wrote:

On Mi, 11 Mär 2026, Christopher wrote:

> I'm trying to get this to work, first I press g followed by CTRL+G although nothing happens ?
>
> g CTRL-G 
>
> Prints the current position of the cursor in five ways: Column, Line,
> Word, Character and Byte. If the number of Characters and Bytes is the
> same then the Character position is omitted. If there are characters
> in the line that take more than one position on the screen (<Tab> or
> special character), or characters using
> more than one byte per column (characters above 0x7F when 'encoding'
> is utf-8), both the byte column and the screen column are shown,
> separated by a dash.

You should see something like this:


Col 20-41 of 54-75; Line 74 of 1738; Word 434 of 11778; Byte 2860 of 73069

(I just pressed g followed by CTRL-G in a help window.)

Does it work if you start vim --clean? Perhaps some plugin is mapping
this key away?


Thanks,
Christian
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Re: Current Position

On Mi, 11 Mär 2026, Christopher wrote:

> I'm trying to get this to work, first I press g followed by CTRL+G although nothing happens ?
>
> g CTRL-G 
>
> Prints the current position of the cursor in five ways: Column, Line,
> Word, Character and Byte. If the number of Characters and Bytes is the
> same then the Character position is omitted. If there are characters
> in the line that take more than one position on the screen (<Tab> or
> special character), or characters using
> more than one byte per column (characters above 0x7F when 'encoding'
> is utf-8), both the byte column and the screen column are shown,
> separated by a dash.

You should see something like this:


Col 20-41 of 54-75; Line 74 of 1738; Word 434 of 11778; Byte 2860 of 73069

(I just pressed g followed by CTRL-G in a help window.)

Does it work if you start vim --clean? Perhaps some plugin is mapping
this key away?


Thanks,
Christian
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Current Position

I'm trying to get this to work, first I press g followed by CTRL+G although nothing happens ?

g CTRL-G 

Prints the current position of the cursor in five ways: Column, Line, Word, Character and Byte. If the number of Characters and Bytes is the same then the Character position is omitted. If there are characters in the line that take more than one position on the screen (<Tab> or special character), or characters using more than one byte per column (characters above 0x7F when 'encoding' is utf-8), both the byte column and the screen column are shown, separated by a dash.

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Re: Backup Directory

On Mo, 09 Mär 2026, CrestChristopher wrote:

> When I create a file in Vim, save it; a backup should be created after the
> save or after I've saved and added more to the document. In either case none
> of these two are working ?

So I tried this out:

#v+
~/tmp/$ mkdir ~/vim-backup
~/tmp/$ cat backup.vim
set nocp
set backupdir=~/vim-backup//
set backup
~/tmp/$ vim --clean -u backup.vim
:e ~/.vim/vimrc
:w
:q
~/tmp/$ ls -l ~/vim-backup/
-rw-r--r-- 1 chrisbra chrisbra 12481 Jan 20 2025 %home%chrisbra%.vim%vimrc~
#v-

Works as expected.


Thanks,
Christian
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Re: Backup Directory

On 3/9/2026 8:22 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote:

> On Mo, 09 Mär 2026, CrestChristopher wrote:
>
>> Although I typed out the full home path where the .backup directory is
>> located query the path returned; backupdir=~/.backup//
>>
>> In this case, after typing something in vim, and quitting without
>> saving; there was no backup saved in the backupdir path ?
> I believe backup is only ever done when saving a file, not from
> arbitrary points in time. There are however plugins available that do
> this. Perhaps you should start explain, what exactly you are trying to
> achieve?
>
> Thanks,
> Christian

When I create a file in Vim, save it; a backup should be created after
the save or after I've saved and added more to the document. In either
case none of these two are working ?

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Re: Backup Directory

hi,

On Mon, 9 Mar 2026 at 11:59, CrestChristopher
<crestchristopher@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> Although I typed out the full home path where the .backup directory is located query the path returned; backupdir=~/.backup//
> In this case, after typing something in vim, and quitting without saving; there was no backup saved in the backupdir path ?

fwiw, the line in my '~/.vimrc' reads:
set backupdir=/tmp,~/tmp

no trailing slashes, works for me.

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Re: Backup Directory

On Mo, 09 Mär 2026, CrestChristopher wrote:

> Although I typed out the full home path where the .backup directory is
> located query the path returned; backupdir=~/.backup//
>
> In this case, after typing something in vim, and quitting without
> saving; there was no backup saved in the backupdir path ?

I believe backup is only ever done when saving a file, not from
arbitrary points in time. There are however plugins available that do
this. Perhaps you should start explain, what exactly you are trying to
achieve?

Thanks,
Christian
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