Re: why does /\[^\s] not find the character 's'?

On Sunday, August 11, 2013 8:38:56 PM UTC-5, tom arnall wrote:
> greetings!
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> when i do a search using:
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>      /\[^\s]
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> it behaves as it shd, i.e., it finds anything that's not a whitespace,

No, it doesn't. I assume you're using "nomagic" so that \[...] is a collection, not a literal '[' character and some other stuff.

Inside a collection, \s does NOT mean whitespace. It means a '\' character or an 's' character. So you're actually matching "anything not a backslash and not the letter 's'" which WILL match whitespace. See just below :help /\] for a list of the ONLY backslash codes recognized inside [...].

I think you want \S (by itself, not within [^...].

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