vi column number

[Steve_3]

How do you display the column number in vi?

thanks,
steve

[Rodney Hills]

vi doesn't.

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

It runs like "vi" but with extensions.

-- Rod Hills

[melvyn burnard]

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.

[Hai Nguyen_1]

# vi filename

Then enter the following and hit enter:
:set number

Hai

[Ian Kidd_1]

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

[Chris Lonergan]

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

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

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