Not understanding values returned when "ctrl g" a file using VI.

[Geek8]

This is a pretty simple question, but one that I can't seem to find a quick answer for. So I thought maybe someone on this board might be able to help me out. Basically I am using VI to look at a file with 10 records in it. With my cursor on the last character of the record, I hit the "ctrl g" command and get some info on the file. Can someone help me with the last part of the info? Basically when it says "col 2691-2726" what does that mean? I know the 2691 is the record length, but what is the 2726? Does that mean spaces past the record? Here is an example of what I got when I hit that command:

"new_file.dat" line 10 of 10 --100%-- col 2691-2726


Any help would be great since we are tying to figure out why this record is not exactly 2691 in length. I just don't know what the second part of the col field means.

Thanks so much.

Geek

 

[Annihilannic]

vi on what operating system? Is it vim on Linux perhaps?

Annihilannic.

 

[Geek8]

Vi on Red Hat Linux.

 

[tikual]

col 2691-2726

2691 - It should be the keystroke times.
2726 - It should be the actual spaces length.

e.g.
#It is not a script!!
#if 1 tab space = 7 spaces

# type ctrl g at position 2, you can see "3-9"
1[tab]2

3 is your keystroke of "l"(right moving)
9 is the actual spaces. 1+7+1

tikual

 

[PHV]

You can try this when in vi:

:set list

Hope This Help
PH.