Re: "exe '?re'" behaves differently from "?re"

On Mon, July 16, 2012 15:53, Andre Majorel wrote:
> Doing a backward search with "exe '?myregexp'" ignores a match
> on the current line. Doing just "?myregexp" would find it, as
> long as it's before the cursor.

The first command specifies an address range (exe executes the result
of the expression as an Ex command and not a normal command), while
the second command actually performs a search in normal mode and by
definition, the :? range looks on the previous line where pattern
matches and does not consider the current line at all.

> Where is this quirk documented and can it be disabled ?
:h :range

You can however either use the exe "norm! ?pat\<CR>" or use the
search() function.

regards,
Christian

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