Re: regular expression blindness

On 01.02.14 08:23, Tim Chase wrote:
> 2) if you just want to search, you can use the more complex pattern
>
> /^\(\.\/\)\@!

Yebbut, that's nearly 50% backslashes, so hard to read through the
picket fence. In less obsolete syntax it is:

/\v^(\.\/)@!

I.e. only the literalised magic chars need be escaped. The picket fence
of backslashes which do nothing useful is completely gone. :-)

Now if Vim had a config option to preset "\v" (posix ERE), then we'd be
in the 21st century at last.

Erik

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