Dear Christian and Al, thank you very much for your help.
2014-10-07 13:40 GMT+02:00 Christian Brabandt <[email protected]>: > Asis, > Again, please, do not top poste. I am sorry. Won't happen again. > It is general list consensus to > reply below the quoted text, quoting for now repaired manually > >> 2014-10-07 13:12, Asis Hallab: >> as requested I explain my test of the suggested solutions. >> >> I tried three regular expressions and used >> :set hlsearch >> to see the matched region. >> >> The original full line is >> glm::something lmg::else >> >> /\<.\{-}:: >> as well as >> /\<..\{-}:: >> and >> /\<.\{-1,}:: >> all matched, and highlighted, >> glm::something lmg:: >> >> The only thing after starting vim -U NONE -u NONE was to >> :set nocompatible >> and >> :set hlsearch >> >> This result could be obtained on vim 7.4 (MacVim) and vim 7.3 (debian >> wheezy). > > > Yes I expected something like this. What you see, is actually two > matches. Like I said before, your pattern just matches twice. Here is > the part of my previous mail, which I quote again: > > ,---- > | My guess is, that you used something like /\<.\{-}:: > | which does what you want, but matches twice, e.g. > | > | mlg::some::else > | ^^^^^^ the second match here > | ^^^^^ the first match here > `---- > > You won't see a difference with :set hls but when you use 'n' to jump > to each start of the matching region, you will notice easily. That actually was the case. Thanks again. > > > Best, > Christian > > -- > -- > 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. Cheers! -- -- 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.
