Using gvim, you can mark the area that you want to search with your cursor. Pressing : later on operates only on the marked area. You can look at :help range for more info
Best Regards, Dov Levenglick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shlomi Fish Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 08:39 To: [email protected] Cc: Gabor Szabo; Oron Peled Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] OT: how can you limit your search to a block in vi or emacs? On Monday 08 September 2008, Oron Peled wrote: > On Monday, 8 בSeptember 2008, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Sunday 07 September 2008, Oron Peled wrote: > > > If you mark the start/end of your range with arbitrary letters > > > (using the 'm' operator -- e.g: 'ma' and 'mb') > > > > > > than you may refer these marks as well with the apostrophe: > > > :'a,'bs/from mark a/to mark b included/ > > > > You can also do: > > :'a,'b /regex > > Just tested it and it doesn't work. It simply places the cursor > after the line marked b. I tested both as you wrote (space before > the /) and without (as normally ':' commands should not have a space > between the address and command) -- both cases present the same > behavior. Also the n[ext] command keep searching for the regex > without any bounds. > > If you can *verify* your trick to work, please send the details > of your setup. Especially, the output of :set command. > I guess it doesn't work. What does work is my range-search.vim vim plug-in. I uploaded it to www.vim.org, but the search there is FUBAR and so I cannot find it there. However, it is available here: http://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/code/vim/range-search.vim Regards, Shlomi Fish ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "The Human Hacking Field Guide" - http://xrl.us/bjn8q Shlomi, so what are you working on? Working on a new wiki about unit testing fortunes in freecell? -- Ran Eilam _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
