Re: regular expression blindness

meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> sorry, this may be a very stupdi question (tm) but...
>
> I try to find an error-line in a very longis tar output log
> (and do later some editing with it). By the way...I am doing this
> on Linux...:)
>
> Except for the error reporting line all lines start with '\.\/' but
> I dont know it contents. Searching for 'error' gives me be far to many
> hits from regular files (listed in the log).
>
> So...I am trying to find any line NOT starting with '\.\/' (dot
> slash).
>
> I can invert a singe character with [^c] (meaning anything not 'c')
> and I can NOT find alternatives...
>
> But how can I NOT find a sepecific sequence of characters at the
> beginning of a line?
>
You could try my LogiPat plugin. In this case, using it would be:

:LP !"\.\/" && "error"

ie. NOT ./ and must have "error".

You can get LogiPat from my website:
http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#LOGIPAT.

Regards,
Charles Campbell

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