Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Re: Regex for matching the section in vim help files

Hi Marco!

On Di, 25 Dez 2012, Marco wrote:

> what would be a regular expression to match the section in vim help
> files?
>
> ==============================================================================
> 3. Simple changes *simple-change*
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> ==============================================================================
> 4. Complex changes *complex-change*
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> 4.1 Filter commands *filter*
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I have no problems matching the line, but I cannot successfully
> match only the section title within the line. I'm not sure if it's
> allowed in vim help files, but in my file the titles would also
> contain other characters than [a-zA-Z] and that's where my current
> regex fails. Example:
>
> ==============================================================================
> 5. Språket ifrågasätts *complex-languages*
>
> 5.2 Rock'n'Roll *rock*
>
> So basically this should be sufficient:
>
> "match everything from one or more spaces to everything
> before two or more spaces"

Why do you need this?


regards,
Christian
--
Eine Gattin verzeiht leichter Untreue und Freude an fremden Reizen,
als Kälte gegen ihre.
-- Jean Paul

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