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Hello All,

I am very sure this a dumb question to many, but from my view its worth asking.

When I do a vi on a file, on the right bottom side I am seeing something like below:

Code:

27,16-24       7%

which tells me that I am on line 27 (which is the first number before the comma, i would like to know what are the numbers after comma in this case (16-24) denote ? the last percent number is the amount of file I have viewed, I think.
can any one tell me what that middle numbers with a dash in between denote.

Thanks

Hi BabyPen1985,

Please refer the following link for same.

Using vi, the Unix Visual Editor


Thanks,
R. Singh

What you show seems not to be a plain "vi", because it wouldn't have such a display. You probably mean "vim", which is a popular (but not really compatible) vi-look-alike mostly used in Linux-systems.

Could you please clarify what exactly system you are on and which vi (-clone) you are using? To find this out you can (among others) use the following commands:

Code:

which vi
ls -l $(whence vi)
ls -l $(which vi) # alternatively
ls -l $(whereis vi) # alternatively

uname -a   # to find out which OS/which system

I hope this helps.

bakunin

Could you please indicate where on that page the OP can find an answer to his question?

Hi,

It is vim, not sure which version - there is a description of the display here.

Regards

Dave

Thanks Bakunin, here is the information you have asked for:


system:

Code:

  uname -a
Linux x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

From:

Code:

less /etc/redhat\-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga)

VI version:

Code:

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

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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.

Posted by Scrutinizer :
Hello Scrutinizer,

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