Re: Match word containing characters beyond a-zA-Z

Am 07.01.2013 10:51, schrieb Marco:
> I'm trying to match words containing characters beyond a-zA-Z. The
> problem is that words like
>
> prästgården
> treść
>
> are not recognized as words. If I match \v(\w+) on these words,
> prästgården is matched three times and treść is matched only at the
> beginning:
>
> prästgården
> ^^ ^^^ ^^^^
> treść
> ^^^
>
> So the problem is that characters like å are not recognized as a
> character. Checking the words with [:alpha:] proves this, it does
> not match any of the characters åść. :h regex tells me that
> [:alpha:] matches *letters*. For me å is a letter, not so for vim.
>
> How to convince vim to treat characters like åść as letters? On [1]
> it was suggested to resort to Perl. But I can hardly believe that
> it's not possible natively in vim.
>
> [1] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/60481/match-word-containing-characters-beyond-a-za-z

The word motion w moves over those characters.
:h w
:h word
:h 'isk
:h /\k

Also, [:upper:] and [:lower:] include more characters. Try
/\c[[:lower:]]\+

to match lower *and* upper characters.

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Andy

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