> > 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. > > regards, > Christian >
Yes, and I think that this pattern could be simplified to /.*cats\&.*dogs See similar example given by :help /\& Greg -- 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
