I tried vim --clean I don't see anything happen ? On Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 1:25:47 PM UTC-4 Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > On Mi, 11 Mär 2026, Christopher wrote: > > > I'm trying to get this to work, first I press g followed by CTRL+G > although nothing happens ? > > > > g CTRL-G > > > > Prints the current position of the cursor in five ways: Column, Line, > > Word, Character and Byte. If the number of Characters and Bytes is the > > same then the Character position is omitted. If there are characters > > in the line that take more than one position on the screen (<Tab> or > > special character), or characters using > > more than one byte per column (characters above 0x7F when 'encoding' > > is utf-8), both the byte column and the screen column are shown, > > separated by a dash. > > You should see something like this: > > > Col 20-41 of 54-75; Line 74 of 1738; Word 434 of 11778; Byte 2860 of 73069 > > (I just pressed g followed by CTRL-G in a help window.) > > Does it work if you start vim --clean? Perhaps some plugin is mapping > this key away? > > > Thanks, > Christian > -- > On the subject of C program indentation: > "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented > six feet downward and covered with dirt." > -- Blair P. Houghton > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/0e4968c8-02d2-482e-9174-b3586cd7a931n%40googlegroups.com.
