How to Show the Full Count of Large Number of Search Occurrences instead of >99 in Vim

The aim of this page📝 is to get a count of matches in the whole file — complicated version — for many matches (over 100).

• Nick Janetakis, whom I found at a wonderful Changelog&Friends appearance (https://changelog.com/friends/53) introduced me to the shortmess
• See https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/display-the-search-count-in-vims-status-bar
• But as pointed out in Reddit forum (vim/neovim seems same) “When searching a pattern with / or ? Neovim doesn’t show the full number of occurrences if there are more than 99 of them”
• Instead of another custom function in .vimrc, it is good to know %s###gn
• That returns something like 196 matches on 196 lines instead of say [3/>99] provided by default

LINKS

• https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/wrj7eu/help_show_the_full_number_of_search_occurrences/