> 
> 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

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