On Wed, June 2, 2010 4:29 pm, rewar wrote: > Hi, > > I have looked around for a way to do this but just cant seem to find > it. Basically, I have very large documents where I want to often > search for a few words in a line, but they wont be all together. > > For example, I want to be able to find the line below in a large text > document by simply searching "cat dog" > "cats are smaller than dogs" >
Try this: /^\(.*cats.*\)\&\(.*dogs.*\)$ This finds any line which contains cats and dogs in any order. > All editors I come across only allows you to search for an exact match > of that field "cat dog" in any line. There are probably several editors, that support regular expressions. though probably not all of them have a that powerful RE-engine as Vim. regards, Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
