Show Count of Matches in Vim

Question

There is a nice feature in Google Chrome when you do a search. It tells you the number of matches there is for the keyword you are searching for. However, in Vim I don\'t se

Answer 1

You already have a good wealth of answers, but it seems to me that there is still one more approach to this problem.

This is actually something I had to deal with a few days ago. I added a function and a mapping in such a way that you hit the mapping when the cursor is under the word you want to count and it returns the number of matches.

The Function:

" Count number of occurances of a word
function Count(word)
    let count_word = "%s/" . a:word . "//gn"
    execute count_word
endfunction

And the mapping:

" Count current word 
nmap w :call Count(expand(""))