Re: Is there a way to predefine search patterns?

On 2010-01-08, Tim Chase wrote:
> lessthanideal wrote:
> >What's a good way to predefine commonly used but complex search
> >patterns so they can be quickly invoked? I'm sure this is a common
> >requirement but I can't find anything searching around.
> >
> >Specific example: I often want to search for IP addresses in files, so
> >I'll search like this:
> >
> >/\([0-9]\{1,3}\.\)\{3}[0-9]\{1,3}
> >
> >The best solution I've come up with is
> >
> >:nmap /ip /\([0-9]\{1,3}\.\)\{3}[0-9]\{1,3}
> >
> >but if I'm too slow to type it gives up and works as the literal
> >command /ip. (Actually that might be quite useful in some
> >circumstances.) I don't want to change the general timeout time just
> >for this case. "ip" is trivial to type but I'm thinking of the more
> >general case of defining long pattern names.
> >
> >I was thinking I'd be able to configure patterns somewhere so I could
> >do something like the below command (following character class
> >syntax), but I can't find a way to do it.
> >
> >/[:ip:]
>
> Several ideas come to mind:

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5) You could use a command-line abbreviation, e.g.,

cabbrev ip \([0-9]\{1,3}\.\)\{3}[0-9]\{1,3}

HTH,
Gary