On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Martin Donlon wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, John P. Looney (Kate) wrote:
>> > As for showing where you are, I add
> >
> > laststatus=2
> >
> > So that there is a status line *always*, and one for each new "window" in
> > the terminal. The status line has the filename, row and column position,
> > and the area of the file you are editing (top,bottom,all or a percentage)
> > by default, though you can change it with the "statusline" option.
Or you could set 'ruler', which displays the cursor postion on the command
line.
> Thats not really the problem, *I* don't want to know where I am, my macros
> need to know where they are:)
Vim has line() and col() builtin functions which can be used to return the
line and column of the cursor. They can also be used to get the line and
colunm of a particular mark. See ':help col()' and ':help line()' for the
full details. ':help functions' will give you the full list of builtin
functions.
John.
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