Hi Ben!
On Di, 27 Okt 2015, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 12:28:18 PM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt
> wrote:
> > 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.
While that is true, it doesn't matter much. If Vim should use perl
regexes, than perl regexes need to cover everything, that Vims regexes
can do. The opposite does not matter.
Best,
Christian
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