A.Politz wrote:
> I put a small patch together, which enables the 'p' flag for
> searchpair() and searchpairpos(). I find it occasionally useful, to
> know which of the 3 patterns (start,mid,end) actually matched, e.g.
> for a script that swaps function arguments. If I'm not mistaken,
> this must currently be done with (e.g.) an additional
> search('\%#...') or something else. It should not break current
> script code, because as of now the 'p' gives an error. (It would
> break code, which uses a try block to check for the given flags,
> maybe in a wrapper function....)
>
> let subpat = searchpair('(',',',')','p')
> let subpat = searchpairpos('(',',',')','p')[2]
>
> subpat is 1,2,3 or 0 if search failed. 'p' and 'm' are mutually
> exclusive.
>
>
> http://www.fh-trier.de/~politza/vim/patch_sp_pflag.diff
I'm a bit confused. When searching forward, wouldn't the result always
be 3? And when searching backward always 1?
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