On 6/1/06, Benji Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
Real close. Turns out I think I want:
/\<\%[directory]\{1,}\>/
but it doesn't seem to recognize \{1,} and without the \< it seems to
be matching white space. The problem with \< is that it doesn't
seem to allow \<\%[.directory]
What I'm actually trying to do is walk through a list of displayed
files, highlighting each file individually (full length) (I.e via
<TAB> key). The regex is because the file names are truncated to a
given length, and the remainder is wrapped down onto the next column
./ >8.3 >oaded
../ TabLineSet.vim.2.0 WinWalker.zip.upl>
TabLineSet.vim.1.> WinWalker.1.2.1.zip >oaded2
>7.1.vim WinWalker.1.2.zip doc/
TabLineSet.vim.1.8 WinWalker.2.0.zip plugin/
TabLineSet.vim.1.> WinWalker.2.1.zip
>8.1 WinWalker.2.2.zip
TabLineSet.vim.1.> WinWalker.zip.upl>
After I solve the \%[ problem, I then have to see if I can deal with
the continuation segments.....
