Ben Fritz wrote:
Nope, she specifically mentioned \v in her post. She doesn't want to
simplify Vim's regex, or even learn how to use it (because it [sic]can do
most of the stuff Perl can)
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I'm not the only one:
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: More auto-indent problems
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:18:39 -0800
References: <[email protected]>
"There is a bug in $VIMRUNTIME/indent/perl.vim."
[and other Vim run time components] because brace matching was
wrong due to the exact problems I was talking about... special cases
for "\"]
"... author tried to match braces with this:
[(){}\[\]]
The trouble is, \[ is not an escaped [ because ..."
[It is another vim special case one has to remember]...
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Authors of core parts of vim can't always remember the
exceptions -- even in the source to vim's core files. I think
I'll stand with, *likely*, a majority of people
who have problems in knowing all of remembering all of vim's
exceptions an search/replace functionality.
, she just wants to use ...
common, and widely adopted, into many languages, syntax that is
consistent and less error prone.
I think the main proponents of vim's syntax are a small minority of
those who have mastery of such arcana. That doesn't bode well for
usability and convenience.
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