Dear Vim experts,
consider the following line
glm::something mlg::else
The goal is to match the words before and including the double colons. Of course
/\([a-zA-Z]\+::\)
does the job. But the question arose, if
/\.\+::
could be restricted to match
glm::something
and not
glm::something
Check out \{-} (in :help \{). This is an as few as possible
version of *, so you can do:
/.\{-}::
If you want to ensure you match something, you can either do:
/..\{-}::
or
/.\{-1,}::
I tend to use the former as I don't have to think as much...
Al
On 7 October 2014 11:02, Asis
Dear Al,
thank you for your effort and reply.
Unfortunately none of your three suggestions work, even when tested with
vim -U NONE -u NONE.
To clarify, in PERL the regular expression that does what I am looking
for is achieved by appending ? to the + operator:
perl -e 'my $s = glm::something
Am 2014-10-07 12:50, schrieb Asis Hallab:
(please do not top poste.)
thank you for your effort and reply.
Unfortunately none of your three suggestions work, even when tested
with
vim -U NONE -u NONE.
Please show us exactly what you tried, what you expected and what you
saw.
My guess is,
Dear Christian,
as requested I explain my test of the suggested solutions.
I tried three regular expressions and used
:set hlsearch
to see the matched region.
The original full line is
glm::something lmg::else
/\.\{-}::
as well as
/\..\{-}::
and
/\.\{-1,}::
all matched, and highlighted,
On 7 October 2014 12:12, Asis Hallab asis.hal...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Christian,
as requested I explain my test of the suggested solutions.
I tried three regular expressions and used
:set hlsearch
to see the matched region.
This option will highlight ALL matched regions. One of these
Asis,
Again, please, do not top poste. It is general list consensus to
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2014-10-07 13:12, Asis Hallab:
as requested I explain my test of the suggested solutions.
I tried three regular expressions and used
:set hlsearch
to see the
Dear Christian and Al,
thank you very much for your help.
2014-10-07 13:40 GMT+02:00 Christian Brabandt cbli...@256bit.org:
Asis,
Again, please, do not top poste.
I am sorry. Won't happen again.
It is general list consensus to
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