Re: Current Position

Christopher <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:43:18 -0700 (PDT)
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I tried vim --clean I don't see anything happen ?

On Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 1:25:47=E2=80=AFPM UTC-4 Christian Brabandt=
 wrote:

>
> On Mi, 11 M=C3=A4r 2026, Christopher wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get this to work, first I press g followed by CTRL+G=20
> although nothing happens ?
> >=20
> > g CTRL-G=20
> >=20
> > 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 7306=
9
>
> (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=20
> this key away?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Christian
> --=20
> On the subject of C program indentation:
> "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented
> six feet downward and covered with dirt."
> -- Blair P. Houghton
>

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I tried vim --clean I don't see anything happen ?<br /><br /><div class=3D"=
gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"auto" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Wednesday, March 11,=
 2026 at 1:25:47=E2=80=AFPM UTC-4 Christian Brabandt wrote:<br/></div><bloc=
kquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px=
 solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Mi, 11 M=C3=A4r 2026, Christopher wrote:
<br>
<br>&gt; I&#39;m trying to get this to work, first I press g=C2=A0followed =
by CTRL+G although nothing happens ?
<br>&gt;=20
<br>&gt; g CTRL-G=C2=A0
<br>&gt;=20
<br>&gt; Prints the current position of the cursor in five ways: Column, Li=
ne,
<br>&gt; Word, Character and Byte. If the number of Characters and Bytes is=
 the
<br>&gt; same then the Character position is omitted. If there are characte=
rs
<br>&gt; in the line that take more than one position on the screen (&lt;Ta=
b&gt; or
<br>&gt; special character), or characters using
<br>&gt; more than one byte per column (characters above 0x7F when &#39;enc=
oding&#39;
<br>&gt; is utf-8), both the byte column and the screen column are shown,
<br>&gt; separated by a dash.
<br>
<br>You should see something like this:
<br>
<br>
<br>Col 20-41 of 54-75; Line 74 of 1738; Word 434 of 11778; Byte 2860 of 73=
069
<br>
<br>(I just pressed g followed by CTRL-G in a help window.)
<br>
<br>Does it work if you start vim --clean? Perhaps some plugin is mapping=
=20
<br>this key away?
<br>
<br>
<br>Thanks,
<br>Christian
<br>--=20
<br>On the subject of C program indentation:
<br>&quot;In My Egotistical Opinion, most people&#39;s C programs should be=
 indented
<br> six feet downward and covered with dirt.&quot;
<br>		-- Blair P. Houghton
<br></blockquote></div>

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