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night@acm.rpi.edu (Trip Martin) writes:
|> keithv@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Vetter) writes:
|>>In VI, is there an easy way to find all lines whose length
|>>is greater than 80 characters?  I realize tabs are a problem but
|>>let's assume that there are no tabs.
|> 
|> If you just want to print them out, you can use:
|> 
|> :g/.\{81,\}/p
|> 
|> Unfortunately, the \{n,m\} construction doesn't work in search mode.

Try this..  Open up a new line (o) and enter the following keystroke sequence -

/<Esc>81a.<Esc>"ddd@d

This will generate the following on the new line -

/.................................................................................

delete the line to buffer d, and execute it to find the next 81-character
sequence.  You can then use n/N to keep searching for other lines.  You'd have
to expand your tabs to spaces though.

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