Ben Fritz wrote:
On Jan 9, 4:41 am, "Christian Brabandt" <[email protected]> wrote:
The atom \v does not help you?
Nope, she specifically mentioned \v in her post.
She doesn't want to
simplify Vim's regex,
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I'd love to simplify it... but it wouldn't be vim's-regex --
it'd be perl's (or similar)... Where did I say I didn't want
to simplify it?
BTW, I use "/v" a fair amount. In the past, I even wanted to set
"very magic" in my .vimrc, but it was (is?) not allowed. It was most
similar to what I was used to. ButBut having wasted another
hour @ vim's syntax, only to find it didn't work due to special
cases, I decided to write this note.
Vim syntax has far too many inconsistencies for me to remember.
Just the fact that "\" doesn't always quote the next char -- trying
to remember all of it's exceptions is not possible for me.
or even learn how to use it
That wasn't what was written. Quoting:
"I waste hours of time trying to find the way to do it
in vim and end up frustrated. I don't use it anywhere near
as often (it's usually faster to get out of vim, and write
a script!, that's how bad it is!)... It's not as well
documented and it has more exceptions, and non-standard
syntax. "
and:
"I've tried vi's syntax, but it has too many gotcha's and not
as much power,"
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It is *not true* that I *did not* want to learn vim's syntax,
but it is true now, because it is too different from
everything else (grep, egrep, pcre, python, javascript, java,
and oh yeah, perl!).
(because it can do ****most*** of the stuff Perl can),
she just wants to use exactly the Perl syntax in Vim.
Uh... Yeah : I quote from wikipedia:
"...Perl <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl> has a more consistent and
richer syntax ..."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That is why I said vim's syntax was hard, it wasn't as consistent,
and it didn't have as rich a syntax.
It sounds like you are trying to make some statement beyond what
I said? Or that you are passing some judgment on my desire or need
to reduce complexity?
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