Hi, esquifit wrote: > According to the help (:he :ilist) > :il /foo/ > would find all occurrences of the string 'foo' while > :il foo > would find all occurrences of the pattern \<foo\>, that is, 'foo' as a > whole word. > > I've found that when the pattern is a number this is no longer the case: > :il /20/ > finds all occurrences of the string '20' as expected, but > :il 20 > gives an "E389 Couldn't find the pattern" even if '20' does occur as a > whole word. In fact, > :il /\<20\>/ > effectively finds all occurrences of '20' as a whole word. > > Is this a bug or am I missing something?
as far as I understand it, :ilist is supposed to be used for searching for keywords like identifiers in a programming language. See the fourth paragraph at ":help include-search". With the slashes around the pattern you explicitly tell Vim to search for only a part of a keyword, but without the slashes Vim searches for a word (in Vim's sense of word, see ":help word") that is also a keyword. Presumably, without looking at Vim's source code, a keyword must start with a letter, so '20' would not be found. Regards, Jürgen -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Calvin) -- 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
