On 2009-12-22, Bee wrote:

> 2) I tried Gary's second version which substitutes all white space
>    runs '\_s\+', it works on MacOS terminal with vim 7.2.315 but
>    fails to substitute line endings with vi 6.2 and search fails.
>    Any idea why?
>    If I manually do a search for '\_s\+' line endings are found.

I don't know.  I'd guess that the mapping uses some feature that was
added to vim after 6.2, but I couldn't tell you what.

> 3) Below, the search part is separated out for emphasis.
> 
>    In Gary's example escape() lists all items that are 'magic'.
>    /<C-R><C-R>=substitute(escape(@", '\\/.*$^~[]'), '\n', '\\n', 'g')
> 
>    In the second, I use '\V' ('very nomagic')
>    to make all but '\' not magic and then escape just '\'
>    /\V<c-r>=substitute(escape(@", '\'), '\n', '\\n', 'g')
> 
>    Both work and all registers look the same.
>    Is there some functional difference I am missing?

Other than the <C-R>= vs. <C-R><C-R>= thing, and without comparing
the two in detail, not that I know of.

Regards,
Gary


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