>> hello,
>>
>> does anybody know how to get the number of search results inside a  
>> file?
>> Something like " NUMBER_OF_CURENT_RESULT ::
>> NUMBER_OF_TOTAL_OCCURRENCES" on statusline would be perfectly.
>>
>> greetings,
>> dan
>
> This may look wasteful, but it may be just what you need (after  
> all, to
> know how many matches there are in the whole file you have to  
> search the
> whole file for all of them) and it has the advantage of being ready- 
> made:
>
>       :vimgrep  /pattern/g  %
>
> will count the occurrences in the current file, jump to the first one,
> and display something like
>
>    (1 of 65)
>
> (followed by the text of the matching line) below the bottom  
> statusline.
> Add a j after the /g if you don't want to jump to the first match, and
> you may also open the quickfix window by :copen to see one line for  
> each
> match (click to move to one of them in the other window).
>
> For this and other quickfix commands, the following (or similar)
> mappings may come in handy:
>
>       " F2 goes to next match
>       :map    <F2>    :cn<CR>
>       " Shift-F2 goes to previous match
>       :map    <S-F2>  :cN<CR>
>
> See also ":help quickfix.txt".

thanks, that's also usable!

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