Dear all, thanks a lot... but I forgot to mention that one main problem is that I cannot know in advance where the new line is... isn't there a faster way of telling vim to ingore new lines?
thanks a lot! On 15 January 2012 15:00, György Kiss <[email protected]> wrote: > You can use regular expressions to search. > In your case, you replace space character to match new line too. The "\_." > modifier match "any single character or end-of-line" > So, your search will look: > /a\_.very\_.interesting\_.place\_.which\_.was\_.far\_.away > > New line can be anywhere (actually, any character can be between words) the > expression will find it ! > > See :help pattern > > ( > If you don't like typing a lot, you can make a > :cmap <space> \_. > command, and make the search, so when you press space, \_. will substitute it > :) > and when you finished, you make > :cunmap(press CTRL-V and space here to get a space instead of \_. this > time)<space> > and voila, the space will behave like space again ! :) > ) > > Walkman > > On 2012.01.15., at 12:41, Pau wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I very frequently have to look for a couple of words in a huge >> document to find the place where I have to resume work or do >> modifications. Unfortunately, the search function stops in a new line, >> so that if I look for "a very interesting place which was far away" >> vim will not find it if there is a new line, i.e. something like this >> >> a very >> interesting place >> which was far away >> >> How can I tell vim to ignore new lines in the search function? >> >> thanks, >> >> Pau >> >> -- >> You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. >> Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. >> For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
