How to see the number of found elements?

Question

vim

Is it possible to configure vim to display the number of items found when searching? And if so, how?

PS
If this can be done without a plugin, then it's generally cool.

Answer 1

Use the g and n flags in the replace command and Vim will tell you how many times the pattern has been encountered. For example:
:%s/someth//ng
See also::h :s_flags