This is by far the best mailing list I'm on in terms of fast,
helpful responses -- even after 10 years of using vi/vim, I still
regularly learn new things here.
> I tried googling the matter with many keywords without success.
> My ignorance in regular expressions is evident though.
For any particular regular-expression, I'm not sure you'd have
much luck googling outside of a few common cases (basic email
address, IP addresses, numbers, etc). But if you invest the time
to learn how regexps work (and there are plenty of google-able
websites such as www.regular-expressions.info that teach
regexps), they're almost a programming language onto themselves,
so you can learn to write them yourself as needed. Most of the
concepts are the same, but there are minor difference in syntax
across libraries (vim vs perl vs python vs sed vs ...), but once
you learn the concepts, you just search your use-specific help
(such as vim's help) for how to write the concept you want.
-tim
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