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On 14-Mar-2015 02:11, James McCoy wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 09:54:18PM +0100, Ingo Karkat wrote:
>> 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
>
> No, that's not what's happening. You can leave off the entire
> replacement and the delimiter before it. When this happens, Vim
> treats it as deleting the matching strings. To quote:
>
> If the {string} is omitted the substitute is done as if it's empty.
> Thus the matched pattern is deleted. The separator after {pattern}
> can also be left out then. Example: > :%s/TESTING This deletes
> "TESTING" from all lines, but only one per line.
Right. My point is that because the "/" delimiters are not actually
left off (they are there, in the correct, unescaped form), the :s
command *mistakenly* runs into the case you've quoted. Putting it yet
another way, the "[" consumes the following characters (including the
unescaped separators), assuming they belong to the collection, and
when at the end the collection isn't closed, the parsing should
backtrack and reinterpret, but it currently doesn't.
- -- regards, ingo
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