thank you everyone. i ended up using winsaveview()/winrestview()

On May 5, 12:47 pm, ZyX <[email protected]> wrote:
> Reply to message «Re: search for the last pattern occurrence without moving 
> the
> cursor»,
> sent 19:41:41 05 May 2011, Thursday
> by cyboman:
>
> > the idea is not to move the cursor. :$ moves it to the end of file.
> > does anybody have any other suggestions.
>
> You can always use
>     let pattern='copyright \d\{4}'
>     let crlines=filter(range(1, line('$')), 
> 'getline(v:val)=~#'.string(pattern))
> Works only for patterns that match only in one line. You can also try to do 
> the
> job with :keepjumps, 'nofoldenable' and winsaveview()+winrestview().
>
> In the above example `crlines' will be set to a list with numbers of lines 
> that
> contain a copyright.
>
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> > the idea is not to move the cursor. :$ moves it to the end of file.
> > does anybody have any other suggestions. also please click 'Reply to
> > author' so i could get notified.
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> > thanks
>
> > On May 5, 11:01 am, "Christian Brabandt" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 4:55 pm, cyboman wrote:
> > > > i'm writing a script to modify the copyright notice. the problem is
> > > > that are multiple notices in the file. i need to be able to find a
> > > > line where the last notice occurs. vim search() function finds only
> > > > the first pattern occurrence. does anybody know of a way to find the
> > > > last pattern occurrence?
>
> > > > here is the example:
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> > > > copyright 2008, company a
> > > > copyright 2009, company b
> > > > copyright 2010, company c
> > > > copyright 2011, company d
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> > > > i need to be able to find the last occurrence of the following pattern
> > > > copyright \d\{4}.
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> > > Jumping to the last line and searching backwards should work:
> > > :$
> > > :echo search('copyright \d\{4}', 'bnW')
>
> > > regards,
> > > Christian
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