On 08/04/10 18:36, Bee wrote:
[^\s]\+ matches everything except "\" and "s"
Might make sense if "\s" was not special (?magic)
I would think it should match all non-whitespace
I have not found any reference that "\s" cannot be used within [...]
similar to "\t"
Is this a bug? or feature?
I'm not sure it's either a bug or a feature, but it is
documented. In my help, if I issue
:he /\]
and read the 2nd bullet-point (there's no nice help-tag to drop
you right to it) you'll find:
"""
- The following translations are accepted [in a square-bracket
character-class] when the 'l' flag is not included in 'cpoptions'
{not in Vi}:
...
\t <tab>
"""
You'll see the other allowed items there. Note that they are all
*characters*, not *character-classes*. You may also want to make
note of the difference described at ":help cpo-l". The "\s" is a
character-class; and to get the inverse, use "\S" (capital-S).
It does make it a bit of a pain if you want to find something
like "stuff that is neither whitespace nor punctuation", but then
you can use the POSIX-style character-classes:
/[^[:space:][:punct:]]\+
(There's a subtle difference between "[:blank:]" and "[:space:]"
depending on whether you want whitespace characters other than
tab/space...read up at ":help [:blank:]" and around that section)
Hope this helps...
-tim
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