On 24/02/11 8:49 PM, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
Hi,
One problem with searching for phrases in files that contain wrapped
text (LaTeX source files, e-mails, source code comments, etc.) is that
you never know whether two words will be separated by a space or a
newline. Therefore, it would be handy to have an option that makes
spaces match newlines in searches.
I've looked at http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_across_multiple_lines,
but those solutions have the disadvantage of either forcing you to use
an awkward pattern or not supporting incremental searching.
A solution to a more general class of problems would be to allow the
search pattern to be automatically rewritten (e.g. by a substitution
or a function) prior to being used. That way you could automatically
rewrite spaces to \_s or do other neat things like having "foo bar"
match "foo {\it bar}" in LaTeX documents.
I'm not experienced enough with vimscript to be able to tell how such
a feature could interact badly with other things, but perhaps it
wouldn't be as bad if you limited it to searches initiated with /.
Thanks for making Vim!
/Ulf
Since nobody has replied to this that I've seen, I'd just like to add a
+1 for something like this. It would be very handy for quickly searching
for a phrase you remember in prose that is hard-wrapped.
Ben.
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