I would have to defer to the regular expression experts, but VIM does not use the standard regular expressions that work on the command line, in say, Linux. Specifically, in the example cited, '/s' was used for whitespace matching, which is not available in standard regular expressions (c.f. GNU regular expression implementation).
________________________________ From: Charles E Campbell Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 12/14/2006 12:54 PM To: Dan Mergens Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: grep and regular expression Dan Mergens wrote: >Vim does not use strict regular expressions and grep does not use regular >expressions for pattern matching. > > I find this comment about Vim curious. Do you perhaps mean that Vim does not use Perl's regular expressions? Grep also uses regular expressions, BTW, although not the same set as Vim or Perl uses. Regards, Chip Campbell
