Re: Get lines in non-current buffer

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 06:02:23PM -0600, Ben Klein wrote:
> My question seems to be basically
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14544618/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-number-of-lines-of-a-buffer-in-vim-script:
> Is there an alternative to line() for getting line numbers from a
> buffer
> other than the current one? The only answer on that question involves
> Python.

it isn't python but

:let l = system("wc -l filename")

would be a way

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