> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Fernando Basso
> <fernandobasso.br@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Say I have:
>>
>> "a" more thext "b"
>>
>> Then, /"[^"]*" will find two separate strings. However, what if I want
>> not to include the quotes? I have tried:
>>
>> /"\zs[^"]*\ze"
>>
>> But it becomes too greey, and
> .. I think greediness is not the culprit. You have specified [^"], so
> it is not possible to do a greedy match... The issue is \ze, the match
> stops early. So,
> First match is:
> a
> Second is:
> more thext
> Third is:
> b
>
> Note that more thext is also surrounded by quotes.
It makes sense, indeed.
>
> If you do not want quotes to be considered as part of the match, it
> should be for some reason - what is that?
I want to highlight text inside quotes, but not the quotes themselves.
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