Hi Bram!
On Sa, 20 Apr 2013, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> Christian Brabandt wrote:
>
> > I noticed, that searching in Vim for [] will match '[]' literally. This
> > seems
> > to be a little bit unexpected, because I would either expect to match
> > everything because the collation [] contains nothing, or an error message,
> > since we are missing a closing ']' as grep or awk does (also nvi):
> >
> > ~$ grep '[]' ~/.vimrc
> > grep: Unmatched [ or [^
> >
> > At the very least, this special behaviour needs to be documented, but I
> > tend to consider this behaviour as a bug.
> >
> > BTW: POSIX says this about it:
> >
> > ,----
> > | The right-bracket ( ']' ) shall lose its special meaning and represent
> > itself
> > | in a bracket expression if it occurs first in the list (after an initial
> > | circumflex ( '^' ), if any)
> > `----
> >
> > This patch makes Vim report an error message:
>
> I don't like errors...
>
> I'm not sure if this is an improvement. And in case of doubt it's
> better to leave it as it is.
>
> How about adding this to the docs:
>
> - Omitting the trailing ] is not considered an error. "[]" works like
> "[]]", it matches the ']' character.
Okay, this is fine with me.
regards,
Christian
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