How to count search results in Vim?

Question

How to find in the text file using Vim how many times specific word repeats.

For example, I want to see how many times word "name" repeats in the code:

"collection": "animals",     "fields": [       {         "field": "id",         "name": ""       },       {         "field": "age",         "name": ""       },       {         "field": "origin",         "name": ""       } 

Result - 3

Answer 1

You can count the number of matches using the n flag in the substitute command. Use the following to show number of times that some-word matches text in current buffer:

:%s/some-word//gn 

You can read all the details on the vim tips wiki

Answer 2

Nowdays (meaning Vim 8.1.1270) you can use:

set shortmess-=S 

to enable a count of [x/y] showing in the bottom right corner every time you do a / or ? search.

Relavant section from the Vim help

Note that if the search finds more than 99 results, Vim unfortunately just shows [x/>99]:

For this reason, I personally use google/vim-searchindex, which works for any amount of results:

(By default the plugin is limited to files with "only" less than 100k lines, this can be adjusted with let g:searchindex_line_limit=1000000 though.)