hi Philip, On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Philip Rhoades <[email protected]> wrote:
> People, > > If I have words in a file - either on the same or separate lines - is it > possible, within vim (I could probably do what I want with a shell script > and grep) to search for _any_ of the words in the set? > > eg I have a file with words: > > quick fox lazy dog > > and I have a text file open in vim with the lines > > the > quick > brown > fox > jumps > over > the > lazy > dog > > - I want my search to stop on "quick" then "fox" then "lazy" then "dog" > when the search is repeated . . seems too hard to me . . > you could search with a regular expression, for example : /\v(quick|fox|lazy|dog) would work with your example (but does not handle word boundaries), nico > > Regards, > > Phil. > > -- > Philip Rhoades > > GPO Box 3411 > Sydney NSW 2001 > Australia > E-mail: [email protected] > > -- > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- -- 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/d/optout.
