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

Alternatively from what @Al suggests you can map the key combination to write most of the line and then move the cursor to the position where the actual pattern is inserted:

:nmap ,c ^[:%s///gn^[OD^[OD^[OD^[OD

Where '^[' is Ctrl+V,Esc and '^[OD' is Ctrl+V,Left

Then pressing ',c' will go into command mode, enter the pattern and leave the cursor over the second '/', ready to insert the pattern.