On 01.02.14 08:23, Tim Chase wrote: > 2) if you just want to search, you can use the more complex pattern > > /^\(\.\/\)\@!
Yebbut, that's nearly 50% backslashes, so hard to read through the picket fence. In less obsolete syntax it is: /\v^(\.\/)@! I.e. only the literalised magic chars need be escaped. The picket fence of backslashes which do nothing useful is completely gone. :-) Now if Vim had a config option to preset "\v" (posix ERE), then we'd be in the 21st century at last. Erik -- ... and to avoid the tedious repetition of these woordes 'is equal to' I will sett, as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of parralelles or twin lines of one length, thus = bicause no 2 things can be moare equal. - Robert Recorde, writing in 1557 (quoted by Tubal Cain, in ME No. 4042) -- -- 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.
