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Article #2638Re: VI - finding lines longer than 80 characters
From: DWT
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:15
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:15
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In article <1992Nov20.005343.807@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
keithv@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Vetter) asked:
>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.
"Easy" is such a subjective term. I make do with this two-fork hack: a
restaurant critic would give it fewer.
:w !cut -c81- | grep -n .
(where the period is a regexp for "any character except newline" and not end
punctuation), though even eighty characters (because an eighty-character line
on an eighty-column screen causes a cursor jump and an empty screen line) are
too many for my purposes and I usually use "79" in that formula rather than
"81".
It's ugly, but it beats the hell out of typing eighty-one periods in a search
pattern.
David W. Tamkin P. O. Box 59297 Northtown Station, Illinois 60659-0297
dattier@{holonet.net|gagme.chi.il.us} CIS: 73720,1570 MCI Mail: 426-1818
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