you are right, thanks
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Zac Lee wrote:
>
> windows xp, gvim
>> :echo match("","\\z")
>> E68: Invalid character after \z
>> thanks
>>
>
> This isn't a bug. If you're trying to match a backslash followed by the
> letter 'z', you need to double the backslash. In double quotes, backslash
> is an escape character. So, the regular expression you're matching
> contains:
>
> \z (and not \\z)
>
> \z is the start of a special sequence. \\z is a literal backslash followed
> by a z. If you're not trying to match a literal '\z', maybe you're looking
> for \zs, \ze, or \Z.
>
> See:
> :help /\\
> :help /\z(
> :help E68
> :help /\zs
> :help /\ze
> :help /\Z
>
> --
> Best,
> Ben
>
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