Re: How can I find where one word is close to another word?

2020-07-25 Thread Tim Chase
On 2020-07-25 17:54, Adrian Keister wrote: > There's an answer on the Stack Exchange site. Does that method work > also? That method finds only the case in which you have "aid" *followed by* "country", so if you have "This country needs all good men to come to her aid." it won't find that

Re: How can I find where one word is close to another word?

2020-07-25 Thread Adrian Keister
Tim, Many thanks! There's an answer on the Stack Exchange site. Does that method work also? Cheers. On Saturday, July 25, 2020 at 6:42:37 PM UTC-5, Tim Chase wrote: > > On 2020-07-25 15:59, Adrian Keister wrote: > > Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their > > country. >

Re: How can I find where one word is close to another word?

2020-07-25 Thread Tim Chase
On 2020-07-25 15:59, Adrian Keister wrote: > Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their > country. > > In this test, I want to find all occurrences where the word 'aid' > is within ten words of the word 'country'. How can I do that in Vim? It's way ugly and requires using the

How can I find where one word is close to another word?

2020-07-25 Thread Adrian Keister
As most people on this forum are likely aware, searching for a word is straight-forward enough. If I want to find occurrences of the word 'arc', I can type / arc , with spaces around the three letters, to find basic occurrences of the word (ignoring punctuation). But suppose I want to find