Re: ignore new line in search

On 01/15/12 13:49, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sunday, January 15, 2012 10:39:42 AM Pau wrote:
>> thanks a lot... but I forgot to mention that one main
>> problem is that I cannot know in advance where the new line
>> is... isn't there a faster way of telling vim to ingore new
>> lines? thanks a lot!
>
> Yes.
>
> I don't know how to do it, but you could write a Vim-Language
> function which first replaces all spaces in the search pattern
> with \_, and then performs the search.

The following one-line mapping converts whatever you existing
search is, into one that allows whitespace to cross lines:

:nnoremap <f4> :let @/=substitute(@/, '<bslash>s',
'<bslash><bslash>_s<bslash><bslash>+', 'g')<cr>n

So you can search for something and then, if you get no hits,
press <f4> and it will search again for the same thing allowing
the spaces to be newlines instead.

-tim

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