Hello everybody,
I came across a strange behavior of Vim. Consider the following two
lines; the 2nd line starts with spaces.
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Test test test
Test test test
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I want to match each 1st word of a line, ignoring preceding white
spaces. The expression
/\v^\s*\zs\w+
works perfectly, however,
/\v^(\s*)@<=\w+
does not. It only matches words in the very beginning of a line, but not
those preceded by whitespaces. I cannot see why the latter would not be
equivalent to the first expression.
According to
:h @<=
"Vim allows non-fixed-width patterns". Thus, I would expect the positive
lookbehind to work also for the 2nd line. (I know that \zs is the
preferable solution anyway, but I'm curious.)
Any ideas?
Best,
Claus
