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From: steinbac@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Gunter Steinbach)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: how do i find out what column i'm in?
Message-ID: <62420021@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 90 00:12:35 GMT
References: <2752@dali>
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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Here is my kludge for telling me the current column, lifted
via "cat -v" from my .exrc:

" which column
map *3 D:.w !expand^V|wc -c;echo "^G";sleep 1^M^Mu

Explanation:
	Delete to end of line
	"write" out to expand
	pipe to wc -c
	beep
	wait a sec
	undo the delete

    (and let's hope that nothing interferes between the leading "D" and
    the closing "u".)

And alas, the file is marked modified afterwards.

	 Guenter Steinbach		gunter_steinbach@hplabs.hp.com