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[Christopher]

I'm trying to get this to work, first I press g followed by CTRL+G although nothing happens ?

g CTRL-G 

Prints the current position of the cursor in five ways: Column, Line, Word, Character and Byte. If the number of Characters and Bytes is the same then the Character position is omitted. If there are characters in the line that take more than one position on the screen (<Tab> or special character), or characters using more than one byte per column (characters above 0x7F when 'encoding' is utf-8), both the byte column and the screen column are shown, separated by a dash.

[Christian Brabandt]

You should see something like this:


Col 20-41 of 54-75; Line 74 of 1738; Word 434 of 11778; Byte 2860 of 73069

(I just pressed g followed by CTRL-G in a help window.)

Does it work if you start vim --clean? Perhaps some plugin is mapping
this key away?


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Christian
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[Christopher]

I tried vim --clean I don't see anything happen ?

[Christian Brabandt]

On Mi, 11 Mär 2026, Christopher wrote:

> I tried vim --clean I don't see anything happen ?

Please do not top poste.

Does this work?
:exe ":norm! g\<c-g>"


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[CrestChristopher]

On 3/11/2026 2:54 PM, Christian Brabandt wrote:

On Mi, 11 Mär 2026, Christopher wrote:

I tried vim --clean I don't see anything happen ?

Please do not top poste.

Does this work?
:exe ":norm! g\<c-g>"


Thanks,
Christian

Yes, that command works; although why not g followed by CTRL+g ?

[Christian Brabandt]

On Mi, 11 Mär 2026, CrestChristopher wrote:

>
> Does this work?
> :exe ":norm! g\<c-g>"
>

> Yes, that command works; although why not g followed by CTRL+g ?

This is how Vim script expects those two keys.

So did you really press "g" followed by hitting the "CTRL" key (and keep
it down) and pressing the "g" key again?

Thanks,
Christian
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[Christopher]

I tried another version on another installation; the same thing. This is frustrating why it's not working; I assume if I can't get this to work similar commands will not work. Therefore I really want to solve this issue.

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[Yongwei Wu]

On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 at 16:56, Christopher <crestchr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I tried another version on another installation; the same thing. This is frustrating why it's not working; I assume if I can't get this to work similar commands will not work. Therefore I really want to solve this issue.

1. What did you see when you type g followed by Ctrl-G?

2. What's the output of `:nmap` after starting Vim with `vim --clean`?

3. If still unsolved, what's your output of `:version`?

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[Christopher]

 I understand it works for you; although as I posted. It doesn't work in my case. I see the `g` in the bottom of the screen but when doing CTRL+G nothing happens ? 

The method of using the `...` to post below using Google Groups web interface exposes my email address; do I want that ? 

[jr]

hi,

On Sun, 15 Mar 2026 at 13:17, Christopher <crestchr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... exposes my email address; do I want that ?

if your questions are rhetorical, then no. ;-)

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[Yongwei Wu]

On Sunday, March 15, 2026 at 9:17:41 PM UTC+8 Christopher wrote:

 I understand it works for you; although as I posted. It doesn't work in my case. I see the `g` in the bottom of the screen but when doing CTRL+G nothing happens ? 

You need to provide more information about your environment: OS, remote or local, terminal app if you are doing remote, :version output, etc.

Does any Ctrl key work, like Ctrl-F for Page down, Ctrl-B for Page up, and Ctrl-G for Print current file name? Could it be that some app intercepted Ctrl-G for some purposes?

 

The method of using the `...` to post below using Google Groups web interface exposes my email address; do I want that ? 

I am replying now in the Google Groups web UI, and you can see the result yourself. Also, your e-mail address is never a secret for subscribers of this mailing list. 

[Christopher]

I think my versions of vim just won't work with g - ctrl+g. I searched into other programs using this short-cut, there is nothing. Strangest issue.   

[Christopher]

The issue is resolved; it's because :messages is hidden.  

[Eric Marceau]

I think the concern about exposing your email address is moot.

(snapshot from my Thunderbird client)

Wouldn't you say?

Eric

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[Eric Marceau]

Getting back to the concern of exposing Contributor/Member email addresses, I offer the example of the Ottawa Linux User Group, which hides those addresses.

• Linux-Ottawa (OCLUG) Wiki
  
  
  

Also, the Discourse site forwards all discussion postings to your personal email, if you subscribe to that, but your email is not public on the forums.

• UbuntuMATE Community @ Discourse
  
  
  

Eric Marceau

[Christopher]

Although in this group; it's exposed.  

[Christian Brabandt]

On So, 15 Mär 2026, Christopher wrote:

> I understand it works for you; although as I posted. It doesn't work in my case. I see the `g` in the bottom of the screen but when doing CTRL+G nothing happens ? 

So what system have you tried this? On what terminal emulator? Have you
tried the GUI as well? Since :exe "norm g\<c-g>" works, it can only be
that Vim or the terminal is not recognizing the literal ctrl-g key.

Thanks,
Christian
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