On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 05:14:40PM EDT, Tim Chase wrote: [..]
> Sorry I can't claim I remember the post :-) https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/vim_use/zb7KnkxBGSw[1-25] Made my day, at the time¹..! > So playing around with this, I've tried multiple cases and must say > I'm somewhat confused by what happens: > 1) /e$ > 2) /e[\n] > 3) /e[\r] > 4) /e\_[\n] > 5) /e\_[\r] > 6) /e[^\n] > 7) /e[^\r] > 8) /e\_[^\n] > 9) /e\_[^\r] > 1) finds "e" as the last character > 2) works like #1 > 3) does not find "e" as the last character (but will find one if > there's a stray ^M after an "e" in the file) > 4) works like #1 > 5) works like #1, but also finds "e" followed by ^M > 6) finds all "e" characters, including those at the EOL > 7) finds all "e" characters except those at the EOL > 8) same as #7 > 9) finds all "e" characters except those followed by ^M > > I guess it's the disparity between #2 (and #4) and #6 (and > correspondingly, #8) that I find most disconcerting: that the > negation ("^") of the set doesn't alter it from matching. The handling of eol's in Vim.. appears to be.. hmm.. a bit ‘poetic’.. perhaps :-) CJ ¹ Even though we never came up with a satisfactory solution to the OP's question... although the issue was more about eof's that eol's.. -- Oh My God!!! Larry is back! -- 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
