Re: Searching for any one of a set or words ?

hi Philip,

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Philip Rhoades <phil@pricom.com.au> wrote:

People,

If I have words in a file - either on the same or separate lines - is it possible, within vim (I could probably do what I want with a shell script and grep) to search for _any_ of the words in the set?

eg I have a file with words:

  quick fox lazy dog

and I have a text file open in vim with the lines

the
quick
brown
fox
jumps
over
the
lazy
dog

- I want my search to stop on "quick" then "fox" then "lazy" then "dog" when the search is repeated . . seems too hard to me . .

you could search with a regular expression, for example :

/\v(quick|fox|lazy|dog)

would work with your example (but does not handle word boundaries),

nico

 

Regards,

Phil.

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Australia
E-mail:  phil@pricom.com.au

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