Saturday, November 5, 2011

Re: Compound search

On 11/04/11 23:38, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> I do a
>
> :/work/;/holidays/
>
> But may be I only want to find "holidays" which not
> such a huge gap after "work"...
>
> Is it possible to search for "holidays" right after work
> in less than a defineable distance or no "holidays" at all?
> Or is this to hard work? ;)

My first thought would be to limit the first match so that it
only finds instances where "holidays" is within N lines of "work":

:/work\%(.*\n\)\{,4}holidays/;/holidays/

where N=4 (ą1 for fence-posting errors on my part).

-tim

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