Is it possible in vimscript to save and reuse a
(complex) (sub)pattern similar te Perl's qr// ?
As usual I seem unable to find the right help
section because of not knowing the right search
term...
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Is it possible in vimscript to save and reuse a (complex)
(sub)pattern similar te Perl's qr// ?
While I don't know what Perl's qr// does (I'm more of a Python
guy), you can certainly save complex patterns and reuse them:
Save something recently searched:
/complex_pattern_1
:let cp1=@/
Reply to message «Saving/reusing (sub)patterns»,
sent 15:29:09 15 December 2010, Wednesday
by BPJ:
Vim patterns are normal strings. I do not know any way to save a compiled
version, but you can use variables to construct a pattern. Here are some pieces
of code from my YAML syntax file
