Hello... another idea that I would like to see one day implemented is a smarter search. I am not lazy to type but often I am in the situation where instead of typing
/the great emperror i would be much faster by typing only /t gr e well one could do that by writing an annoying expression like /t[a-zA-Z]* g[a-zA-Z]* e[a-zA-Z]* but until I write that long regexp, I write 5 times the original expression "the great emperror" well, the code needs little change in my opinion to implement sthg. like that, and it would be activated by a switch similar to :set incsearch. probably: :set smartsearch="[a-zA-Z]" and/or :set smaltsearchfun=myfun() I implemented a skeleton in ex_getln.c for the incremental search, attached please find the diff (please do not comment hte style... it is late and I am tired, and I am a bad C programmer :) ) Maybe I am obsessed by mobile devices, but searching information on a mobile device with vim is a great idea, but such "smart search" features would improve the experience.... Obviously the patterns "[a-zA-Z]" should be read from the config file... or even a function should be defineable that would change the already inserted search string at each iteration of the incremental search Please help VIM to evolve :) rgrds, mobi phil being mobile, but including technology http://mobiphil.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
