Re: regex variable

On 07/19/13 03:34, shawn wilson wrote:
>
> On Jul 18, 2013 5:54 PM, "Ben Fritz" <fritzophrenic@gmail.com
> <mailto:fritzophrenic@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday, July 18, 2013 3:51:01 PM UTC-5, Lech Lorens wrote:
> > > On Thursday, July 18, 2013 3:42:06 PM UTC+2, shawn wilson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm constantly looking for the first octet of IP addresses, so I do:
> > > > /[^0-9\.]10\.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Slightly off-topic, but wanted to make you aware that [^\.] matches
> anything that isn't a dot AND IS NOT A BACKSLASH. IOW backslash is not
> escaping the dot inside the [] range.
> > >
> >
> > And furthermore the . doesn't NEED escaping inside the [] range.
> >
>
> This is probably a feature request but I really do hate the regex engine
> and would love to swap it out. Is there / can there be a compile time
> option to use a different engine?

There is a runtime option to disable the new engine in favour of the old
one — or vice-versa. See :help 'regexpengine'

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