On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 12:28:18 PM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Hi Afanasiy! > > On Mo, 26 Okt 2015, Afanasiy Fet wrote: > > > Good day, may I have > > :set perlcompatible > > option to switch to perl regex ? > > That is not so easy possible, since there are some Vim specific regular > expression atoms, that are not available in Perl Regexes. >
Although to be fair, there are also things Perl can do, like named capture groups or ignoring comments/whitespace in a regex, that Vim can't. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
