Thursday, February 13, 2014

Re: my old regex stopped working in v7.4

Am 2014-02-13 17:06, schrieb Aaron Bohannon:
> On Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:01:52 AM UTC-5, Aaron Bohannon wrote:
>> In v7.4, that regex now matches the whole string. That seems to
>> violate the longest-match semantics. In fact, the result is the same,
>> even if I replace the second '*' by '\{,}'.
>
> Oops. I meant '\{-}'.

I think this is a known issue with the new regexp-engine. See :h todo
and :h \%#= for a way to use the old engine.

Best,
Christian

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