On Oct 8, 10:41 am, Nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've tried this search/replace:
> :%s/\..\{-}$//c
>
> However, vim will not do minimal matching on the 3rd line.
This is a common trap that many people (including myself) fall into
when using minimal matching.
Minimal matching will _NOT_ adjust the _beginning_ of a match. It only
controls where the match _stops_ matching.
So, here's the breakdown of your regex, as-is:
\. : match the first '.' character in the line.
.\{-} : match any number of any character, until the first time you
encounter...
$ : the end of the line
My crack at it would look like this:
s/\.[^.]*$//
The \. matches a '.' character, and the [^.]*$ matches as many as
possible NON '.' characters and the end of the line, meaning that it
is guaranteed to match the _last_ '.' in the line.
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