Re: [BUG?] Syntax question regarding \%[
inte integ intege integer inter interv interva interval is there any easy way to make these two commands work? syntax match Error /int\%[eger]/ syntax match Error /int\%[erval]/ The second match begins taking priority as soon as the word is 'inte', and prevents 'integer' from being matched correctly. Your problem is that both patterns match int and inte, resulting in ambiguity. I think solution is to separate 'int' and 'inte' as separate matches, whcih results in unambiguous matching: syntax match Error /integ\%[er]/ syntax match Error /inter\%[val]/ syntax match Error /\int\%[e]\/ (untested) I suspect, in testing ideas on this, I may have turned up a bug in either the implementation of \%[] or its documentation needs a remedy. In theory, the following should work: :match Error /int\%[\(eger\|erval\)]/ I base that assumption on a combination of these two pieces of the help: From :help /\%[] one finds that this syntax matches a list of optionally matched atoms. (note atoms, not ordinary atoms) So what's an atom? We jump over to :help atom where we read that an atom is atom::=ordinary-atom |/ordinary-atom| or \( pattern \) |/\(| or \%( pattern \) |/\%(| or \z( pattern \) |/\z(| and that a pattern is (according to :help pattern) pattern ::= branch or branch \| branch or branch \| branch \| branch etc. Thus, my understanding of it is that one should be perfectly allowed to use a \(...\|...\) atom within a \%[] expression. If this is not the case, the help for \%[] may likely intend to refer to ordinary atoms rather than atoms. *However*, the above search/match expression returns an E369: invalid item in \%[] error. I get this both in vim6.3 and vim7. -tim
Re: [BUG?] Syntax question regarding \%[
Tim Chase wrote: I suspect, in testing ideas on this, I may have turned up a bug in either the implementation of \%[] or its documentation needs a remedy. In theory, the following should work: :match Error /int\%[\(eger\|erval\)]/ I base that assumption on a combination of these two pieces of the help: From :help /\%[] one finds that this syntax matches a list of optionally matched atoms. (note atoms, not ordinary atoms) So what's an atom? We jump over to :help atom where we read that an atom is atom::= ordinary-atom |/ordinary-atom| or \( pattern \) |/\(| or \%( pattern \) |/\%(| or \z( pattern \) |/\z(| and that a pattern is (according to :help pattern) pattern ::= branch or branch \| branch or branch \| branch \| branch etc. Thus, my understanding of it is that one should be perfectly allowed to use a \(...\|...\) atom within a \%[] expression. If this is not the case, the help for \%[] may likely intend to refer to ordinary atoms rather than atoms. *However*, the above search/match expression returns an E369: invalid item in \%[] error. I get this both in vim6.3 and vim7. The documentation omits to mention that \(\) things are not allowed inside \%[]. It also doesn't nest. -- MORTICIAN:Bring out your dead! [clang] Bring out your dead! [clang] Bring out your dead! CUSTOMER: Here's one -- nine pence. DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead! The Quest for the Holy Grail (Monty Python) /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ ///sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org/// \\\help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org///
Re: [BUG?] Syntax question regarding \%[
If this is not the case, the help for \%[] may likely intend to refer to ordinary atoms rather than atoms. *However*, the above search/match expression returns an E369: invalid item in \%[] error. I get this both in vim6.3 and vim7. The documentation omits to mention that \(\) things are not allowed inside \%[]. It also doesn't nest. So should the documentation for \%[] be updated to read ordinary atoms rather than atoms then? Or are there additional items that can go in a \%[] that are some subset of atom but a superset of ordinary atoms? -tim
Re: [BUG?] Syntax question regarding \%[
Tim Chase wrote: If this is not the case, the help for \%[] may likely intend to refer to ordinary atoms rather than atoms. *However*, the above search/match expression returns an E369: invalid item in \%[] error. I get this both in vim6.3 and vim7. The documentation omits to mention that \(\) things are not allowed inside \%[]. It also doesn't nest. So should the documentation for \%[] be updated to read ordinary atoms rather than atoms then? Or are there additional items that can go in a \%[] that are some subset of atom but a superset of ordinary atoms? All atoms can be used except \(\), \%(\), \z(\) and \%[]. Basically things that nest. -- We do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. Confucius /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ ///sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org/// \\\help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org///
