On Do, 09 Sep 2021, Julius Hamilton wrote:
> From trying it myself, it seems that the "find" menu option in Gvim does not > allow entering patterns or regular expressions, such as a period to represent > any character, or "\n" to represent a newline, but only literal, explicit text > matching. > > I was curious why this is and if there is any GUI / menu way to search for > regular expression patterns or if you must use the Vim text-based command "/" > for this. Yes, I think the :promptfind and :promptreplace commands do a literal search and replace only. If you want to use regexes, just use the `/` (for finding) or `:%s` (for replacing) command. Best, Christian -- Frau Weber liest in einem Gedichtband. Auf einmal ruft sie: "Du, Theo, stell Dir vor, hier hat doch tatsächlich ein gewisser Rilke das Gedicht abgeschrieben, das Du vor dreißig Jahren eigens für mich geschrieben hast!" -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20210909123654.GC3962222%40256bit.org.
