On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 05:05:00AM -0600, Eric Arnold wrote: > Sorry if I've got brain lock on this, but is it possible to match a > substring like > > match wildmenu ;\(directory\)\{3,}; > > such that it will match three or more substring chars of the pattern > to match "dir" as well as "directory"? (I know the above format isn't > this.) I know I could do it if I could use an expression, but syntax > highlighting doesn't allow that, so I'm wondering if I can do it with > regex alone.
Do you mean like /\<dir\%[ectory]/ ? :help /\%[] HTH --Benji Fisher