On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:11, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Stephen!
>
> [Please don't top poste]
>
Sorry, I was just following the lead set in the thread.
>
> On Mi, 15 Sep 2010, Stephen Rasku wrote:
>
> > OK, I got something working. I used the following:
> >
> > :let m = matchadd('ErrorMsg','^\%(\%([^\t]\{7}\)\zs[^0]\)\{1}')
> > ...
> > :let m = matchadd('ErrorMsg','^\%(\%([^\t]\{7}\)\zs[^0]\)\{32}')
> >
> > This requires entering a similar pattern 32 times which is error
> > prone. If I forget to add just a single pattern then I won't see a
> > highlight for that column. Is there a better way to do this? I tried
> > specifying \{1,32} but this always matches the last (i.e. 256th)
> > character on the line.
>
> Did you try this, without anchoring the match to the line start?
>
This doesn't work. It finds every 8 characters that's not a zero but they
are not on position 8,16,24, etc.
> > In addition, I would like to be able to search for the "errors".
> > There's over four thousand lines in the file so scrolling through the
> > file looking for one red character is tedious. Is there a good way to
> > do this?
>
> Can't you simply use the above pattern for searching, or am I missing
> something?
>
>
Unfortunately, I would have to enter the search pattern 32 times which is
error prone and tedious.
...Stephen
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