Hi,
It is the tab positions in the ruler.
Regards
Dave
Dave,
I'd appreciate if you can explain it in detail. I am not a vim/vi editor expert but I know good enough to get my stuff done, so if you can provide me with a short description on what you mean the "tab positions in the ruler" it will be helpful.
I agree that link will not give the complete solution to the user but if user can go through the link properly he will find many options related to vi and it may clear user's some of the queries too. I am Sorry if I have broken a forum rule here.
Thanks,
R. Singh
Hi Ravinder.. Yes but the information that the OP is looking for cannot be found on that page. That is one of the reasons why it is good practise to quote the part on a page that answers the OP's question as well as provide a link. This practise also forces you to verify / double check if the information can be found and if not come up with a better link..
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Thanks Bakunin, here is the information you have asked for:
system: uname -a
Linux x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
From: less /etc/redhat\-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga)
VI version:
vi --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 (2006 May 7, compiled Aug 4 2010 07:21:08)
which vi --> vi=vim
Code:
ls -l $(whereis vi)
ls: vi:: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 632880 Aug 4 2010 /bin/vi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32659 Jul 23 2010 /usr/share/man/man1p/vi.1p.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 10 2012 /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz -> vim.1.gz
---------- Post updated at 11:31 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:11 AM ----------
Thanks for the link Dave, but I was still not able to find the exactly what it denotes. The link concentrates on how to enable the line number, which in my case is already on.
By exploring a little more it
Code:
12,4-8 3%
line 12
4 is indicating the 4 character need to know what 8 is
a sample record from my file:
Code:
999 050 Primary Unit
the above [4-8] comes when my cursur is right in front of '*050' when i move the cursor over on to 0 it will become [5-9] and when move it over on 5 it will become [6-10] so on an so forth.
hope this helps to understand what it is, its definitely not the width of the column.
In your examples, 12,4-8 means that the cursor is sitting on line 12, the first byte of the character under the cursor is the 4th byte of the line, and the last column position occupied by that character is 8. The 1st three bytes on that line each contain the one byte character "9" and the character under the cursor is the one byte character <tab>. When you move the cursor to cover the "5", that character is the 6th byte on that line and is displayed in column 10.
For another example (using multi-byte characters), if you're using UTF-8 as your code set, if you have a file containing the line:
Code:
aâÂ1
which when viewed using od -bcis:
Code:
0000000 141 303 242 303 202 061 012
a â ** Â ** 1 \n
0000007
when the cursor is over the "a", you'll see 1,1-1; when the cursor is over the "â", you'll see 1,2-2; when the cursor is over the "Â", you'll see 1,4-3; and when the cursor is over the "1", you'll see 1,6-4.
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