topic Re: vi in Operating System - HP-UX

vi

Simon Randon — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:32:59 GMT

Is it possible to tell which column you are in when vi'ing a file?

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Ravi_8 — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:37:40 GMT

Hi,

no

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Nick Wickens — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:39:25 GMT

You can take a guess using "n |" This will move the cursor to column "n" of the current line.

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Kent Ostby — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:44:50 GMT

Also starting from the begining of the line you can do:

20 l

to go to the 20th column

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Jose Mosquera — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:49:31 GMT

Hi,

Are you using an emulator? In this case the emulator would display you x,y (row, column) coordinates.

Rgds.

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Sanjay Kumar Suri — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:50:10 GMT

l and h move cursor 1 character right or left from the current cursor postion and it can be appended by n where n is a number to move n characters left or right.

Apart from above there is no way to tell the column postion.

sks

Re: vi

James V. Ryan — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 05:31:21 GMT

Download and install VIM from the Liverpool archive, it gives you that information, syntax coloring, multiple undo's and much more.

Re: vi

Steve Post — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:04:20 GMT

oh there's always a way.

It may be lame. I may be silly. But it works. So why not?
What I do:

Add these two lines.
0 1 2 3....
123456789012345678901234567890....

You get the idea right?
Then, when you're done. Get rid of the two lines.

Steve

Re: vi

Steve Post — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:05:36 GMT

oh darn that formating. The line is like this....

000000000100000000020000000003....
123456789012345678901234567890....

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harry d brown jr — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:50:33 GMT

Install vim (6.3) - downloads and install in under an hour. Follow the install in this order:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gettext-0.14.1/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Development/Libraries/libiconv-1.9.2/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/ncurses-5.4/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gtk/Development/glib-1.2.10/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gtk/Development/gtk+-1.2.10/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/X11/Graphics/xpm-3.4k/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Editors/vim-6.2/

live free or die
harry

Re: vi

Bruno Ganino — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:40:31 GMT

Don't possible with standard vi command.
Bruno

Re: vi

Steve Post — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:50:48 GMT

Yep. You would never know that the word ONE is in columns 21, 22, and 23 of this forum.
It was just a luck on my part.
000000000100000000020000000003......
123456789012345678901234567890......
ONE

I Guess the "Guess" starts on 7.(and20).

Steve (columns 11-15).

Re: vi

Steve Post — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:52:05 GMT

Darn that fact that the "spaces" go away. It looked a lot better in the "reply to message."