On 2006-07-13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a mapping which immediately searches for visually selected items.
> It achieves this by yanking the selected text and exec[utes] a search for
> the register content
> This works so far.
>
> vmap / y:execute "/".escape(@",'[]/\.*')<CR>
>
> Now I tried this first time for multiline selects, but it does not work:
> Selecting this:
>
> USE ICCS_2005
> GO
>
> leads to:
> -> E486: Pattern not found: USE [EMAIL PROTECTED]@
> How can I have \n instead of thes ^@ - characters to make the search work?
Someone posted a similar mapping to this list some time ago and I
just recently enhanced it to work with multi-line patterns.
vmap <silent> g/ y/<C-R>=substitute(escape(@", '\\/.*$^~[]'), '\n', '\\n',
'g')<CR><CR>
HTH,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division
| Spokane, Washington, USA
