On Di, 12 Apr 2016, L. A. Walsh wrote: > Christian Brabandt wrote: > >There is https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/99 > >You might want to check, if this works for you. > ---- > If vim supported posix extended RE's, then, like, say grep, > it could also support Perl RE's, from the PCRE library. Perl supports > the "/x" to ignore whitespace for readability. I.e. the author was saying > they wanted to implement some flavor of PCRE's, but really wanted the "/x" > feature, which would have been alot easier to do from Vim's current > feature set.
The thing is, Vims RE support atoms, that other RE engines do not support. Think about e.g. \_. \< \%l \%'m That makes adding another RE engine hard. Best, Christian -- Hallo Meerschweinchenbesitzer! -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
