On 05/06/2011 05:27 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
I've been slow to realise that Vim users don't necessarily use
a variety of posix compliant applications, and so haven't
experienced the great productivity benefit of being able to
move between them _without_ trial and error, or resort to
documenta
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 10:49:23PM +0200, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> I don't really know any other regular expressions than Vim's, because
> those are exhaustively documented, in a set of cross-linked helpfiles
> which I constantly have at my fingertips.
A ":helpgrep regex" has just now shown me mor
On 04/05/11 17:04, Erik Christiansen wrote:
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:00:40AM -0400, Charles Campbell wrote:
There's probably a history of regular expressions somewhere; ed
definitely preceded (the original) vi, and I think sed did, too. Awk
followed in sed's "footsteps", and Perl came after v
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:00:40AM -0400, Charles Campbell wrote:
> There's probably a history of regular expressions somewhere; ed
> definitely preceded (the original) vi, and I think sed did, too. Awk
> followed in sed's "footsteps", and Perl came after vi. Vim follows
> vi's reg-ex (with exten
