Sweet, didn't know about C+r - that works. I'll look more into the leader stuff (which'll probably work better) later. Thanks
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Marcin Szamotulski <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09:42 Thu 18 Jul , shawn wilson wrote: >> Is there a way of using a variable in a regex? >> >> I'm constantly looking for the first octet of IP addresses, so I do: >> /[^0-9\.]10\. >> >> What I've been doing is hitting / and up arrow and then edit but if I >> could store [^0-9\.] in something easily accessed, that would save >> some time. > > Hi, > > You can set: > :let ip='[^0-9\.] > and then use: > /^r=ip<cr> > (i.i. hit '/' for search, the CTRL+r, then =, then write the variable name and > then hit <cr>). See ":help c^r=" for the expression register. > > But maybe more useful is make a mapping: > cmap <Leader>i ['0-9\.] > > or even better allow for this map only in search: > cmap <expr> <Leader>i (getcmdtype() == '/' ? "['0-9\\.]" : '\i') > > I assumed here that your <Leader> key is set to '\', otherwise you just > have to modify the '\i'. > > Best regards, > Marcin > > -- > -- > 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 because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- 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 because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
