Re: Two search patterns

On 23 January 2011 21:17, Tim Chase wrote:

> [...]
>
> Case #2:
>
> Start Vim (-u NONE) on a document
> Perform a replacement (either a null-op, or just the
> first-in-a-line with further matches later in the line,
> or a replacement that allows for the pattern to be found
> again)
>
> :%s/pattern/&
>
> Hit "n" to find the next instance of the pattern or use
> "/" with an empty pattern. I get
>
> E35: No previous regular expression
>
> [...]

It does indeed seem odd. Interestingly you can prevent
this from happening by starting vim with

$ vim -u NONE --cmd "set vi='0"

--Antony

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