Answer by butterywombat for What's the difference between vim regex and...
Try Vim's very magic regex mode. It behaves more like traditional regex, just prepend your pattern with \v. See :help /\v for more info. I love it.
View ArticleAnswer by Evgeni Sergeev for What's the difference between vim regex and...
There is a plugin called eregex.vim which translates from PCRE (Perl-compatible regular expressions) to Vim's syntax. It takes over a thousand lines of vim to achieve that translation! I guess it also...
View ArticleAnswer by J-P for What's the difference between vim regex and normal regex?
"Regular expression" really defines algorithms, not a syntax. What that means is that different flavours of regular expressions will use different characters to mean the same thing; or they'll prefix...
View ArticleAnswer by Bill Odom for What's the difference between vim regex and normal...
If by "normal regex" you mean Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE), then the Vim help provides a good summary of the differences between Vim's regexes and Perl's::help perl-patternsHere's what it...
View ArticleAnswer by Benoit for What's the difference between vim regex and normal regex?
Too broad question. Run vim and type :help pattern.
View ArticleWhat's the difference between vim regex and normal regex?
I noticed that vim's substitute regex is a bit different from other regexp. What's the difference between them?
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