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

On 12/08/13 06:28, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Sunday, August 11, 2013 8:38:56 PM UTC-5, tom arnall wrote:
>> greetings!
>>
>>
>>
>> when i do a search using:
>>
>>
>>
>> /\[^\s]
>>
>>
>> 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 [^...].
>

Tom: /\S is indeed the fastest way to search for the next nonblank. But
if you're dead set on using a collection (or if you want to match
something that's neither whitespace nor {something}) you can use

/[^[:blank:]]

with 'magic', or

/\[^[:blank:]]

with 'nomagic'. ('magic' on is the default, even in 'compatible' mode,
and is the recommended setting, see :help 'magic'.)


Best regards,
Tony.
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