vi

[Simon Randon]

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

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

no

[Nick Wickens]

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

[Kent Ostby]

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

20 l

to go to the 20th column

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi,

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

Rgds.

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

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

[James V. Ryan]

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

[Steve Post]

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

[Steve Post]

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

000000000100000000020000000003....
123456789012345678901234567890....

[harry d brown jr]

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

[Bruno Ganino]

Don't possible with standard vi command.
Bruno

[Steve Post]

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).

[Steve Post]

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