Excerpts from Krishna Rajendran's message of Fri Dec 04 14:55:27 +0100 2009: > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Nicolas Pouillard > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Vim documentation says: > > > > Instead of the '/' which surrounds the pattern and replacement string, you > > can use any other single-byte character, but not an alphanumeric character, > > '\', '"' or '|'. This is useful if you want to include a '/' in the search > > pattern or replacement string. Example: > > > :s+/+//+ > > Peaking at the vim source, it looks like the space character and tab > characters are also invalid delimiters. I'm not sure why tab isn't, > but ':s ' is a command to repeat the last substitution. > > Is it possible to capture these restrictions in a pattern match? > > Would an acceptable, modification of the patch be to just move the two > patterns down to near the bottom and do the checks for valid > characters there?
Yes I think it would be an acceptable solution before a deeper change into this mechanism. -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Yi development mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
