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Hello Vim developers,
it's possible to avoid escaping a "[" character:
,----[ :help E769 ]----
| When the ']' is not there Vim will not give an error message but
| assume no collection is used. Useful to search for '['.
`----
But when using that feature in a :substitute command, the replacement
part is mistakenly added to the pattern:
:s/[//g
E486: Pattern not found: [//g
I guess the command parser doesn't backtrack when the closing "]"
isn't found, and instead uses the remainder as the pattern (even
though the "/" separators aren't escaped and therefore are valid
separators).
Though this came up in a (wrongly typed) command [1], it's unlikely
that this problem occurs during interactive use. I'm more worried
about plugins automatically inserting the last search pattern into a
generated command and then failing unexpectedly, e.g.:
execute 'substitute/' . @/ . '//g'
- -- regards, ingo
[1] http://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/2538/regex-how-to-replace
- --
-- Ingo Karkat -- /^-- /^-- /^-- /^-- /^-- http://ingo-karkat.de/ --
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Using Vim for 13 years now, mostly 'cos I can't figure out how to exit it.
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