> > Again: :h pattern : look for this line: > |/\_.| \_. \_. any single character or end-of-line > Thus you can already search across line boundaries. But it might be more > difficult to write the search pattern. > that is again workaround. I wonder why ignorecase was introduced... There would have been a workaround for that as well...
I feel the same. That's why I did start tovl > http://www.github.com/MarcWeber/theonevimlib > Thanks for that, I think lot of people appreciate that * vim *is* extensible. Eg you can extend it using python, perl, ruby, > php, .. ( Have a look at the configure flags) > you can even load .dlls or such (but they will be reloaded again and > again) You can load dlls, the dlls as I understand are not supposed to have access to the symbols. I think the symbols are not exported by any standard build. The dlls I understand are meant to export themselves symbols for the script etc. The same with python. I doubt that the functions available to the python interface would allow me to implement the previously presented smartsearch for example > So don't try to ask questions like "How can I make vim do this meta > thing". Rather ask: I have this use case: .... Which is the vim way to > handle this, how do you do this? Look, I think I am enough mature and have years of IT, I know how to attack a problem. I have these ideas for years now, I wanted to be sure that they are useful. And now I am convinced that they are useful. What you say depends on what does it mean "vim way". You mean vim way of vim 3.7 or vim way of 10.11? There is a difference. I think you got the point. Of course I am not pretending to add a c++ compiler for the highlighting. That would be against the basic principle "vim is the fastest editor". Any feature that would break that basic principle is nonsense for me. > > You'll get much better results. So after all don't try to use vim for > everything. Use the tool which is best for a given task (vim happens to be > the > tool of choice for many of my tasks..). > Of course I will try to use it for everything. I had few month ago an experiment to go back a bit to Eclipse, but the first time I had to move my hand to the mouse, I was sick :) But I would not give up with the idea to search efficiently in 2GB text data. (imagine you are doing a research on wikipedia, you download the xGB wikipedia into one file, and you use vim to search in that big text file, you copy stuff to your text etc.). If you tell me I should not do that with vim, because there are better tools for that, then maybe we are not discussing about the same thing :) But you would have to do let's say 5 searches per minute, you would rather smartsearch, than writing hierogliphs in your search commands :) -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
