On Friday, August 17, 2012 7:46:07 AM UTC-5, Paul Anton Letnes wrote: > Hi, > > > > this is possibly me not being regex proficient enough, but here goes: When I > search for patterns with 'not newline' at the end, for instance, "/&[^\n]", > the "[ ]" part seems to match "/&\n". I have realized that using simply "/&." > is a simpler and better regex, but nevertheless - why doesn't my first > suggestion work as expected? > >
I can reproduce this on 7.3.622 on Windows XP. I'm not sure why it doesn't work. On the other hand, [...] groups NEVER match newline characters, unless you explicitly add it by including \n in the group or by using \_[ instead of just [. See :help /[\n] I think the behavior might actually be documented. :help /[/n] actually explicitly says "The same can be done by including '\n' in the collection. The end-of-line is also matched when the collection starts with '^'". I thought this referred to just when it starts with \_, but technically it SAYS the two act in the same way. It appears they actually do. > > Furthermore, I notice (using the hlsearch option) that the pattern [\n] > matches _everything_. This must surely be a bug? > > This I cannot reproduce. [\n] only matches newline characters for me on 7.3.622. But [^\n] matches everything. Assuming the above discussion of the help text is accurate, I would EXPECT [^\n] to match everywhere. It basically acts like a \_. atom. > > The same applies to these two vim versions: > > $ mvim --version > > VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Sep 18 2011 16:00:17) > > MacOS X (unix) version > > Included patches: 1-315 > > Compiled by Bjorn Winckler <[email protected]> > > > > $ vim > > paulanto@courant:/tmp/paulanto $ vim --version > > VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Jul 2 2012 18:54:34) > > MacOS X (unix) version > > Included patches: 1-69 > > Compiled by [email protected] > > > > Operating system: Mac OS X 10.7.4 > > > > Cheers > > Paul -- 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
