Re: Is there a variable containing all tokens that matched a regex search term?

On 04/09/2010 04:47 PM, Antony Scriven wrote:
> For a quick a quick hack, try this.
>
> :let tokens=[]
> :%s/&&\S\+/\=add(tokens,submatch(0))/g
> :undo
> :new
> :put=tokens

I like it :)

As a quick abuse of add(), the :undo can be obviated by making it

:let tokens=[]
:%s/&&\S\+./\=add(tokens,submatch(0))[-1]/g
:new
:put=tokens

which returns the last item added, and thus the found-token gets
replaced by itself.

-tim

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