topic Re: vi column number in Operating System - HP-UX

vi column number

Steve_3 — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:21:24 GMT

How do you display the column number in vi?

thanks,
steve

Re: vi column number

Rodney Hills — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:26:21 GMT

vi doesn't.

but "vim" does. Check it out the software porting and archive center.

It runs like "vi" but with extensions.

-- Rod Hills

Re: vi column number

melvyn burnard — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:28:00 GMT

vi cannot do this, to my knowledge.
You can do thing slike show line numbers by giving the ex cmd
:se num
in the vi sesion, but not columns.

see man ex for more info.

Re: vi column number

Hai Nguyen_1 — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:28:05 GMT

# vi filename

Then enter the following and hit enter:
:set number

Hai

Re: vi column number

Ian Kidd_1 — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:37:01 GMT

you can use
:set number
to see the line numbers, but as far as I know, you can't show column numbers. For a list of options in vi, type in
:set all

Re: vi column number

Chris Lonergan — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:42:49 GMT

A useful feature is the | (pipe) which will take you to a particular column.

i.e. 50| will position the cursor on column 50.

Hope this helps

Chris

Re: vi column number

MANOJ SRIVASTAVA — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:43:49 GMT

Hi Steve

:se nu

in the vi mode will giv the col no. but to know about rows you need vim or some other editor .

vim can be had from :

http://www.vim.org/

Manoj Srivastava