Re: positive lookbehind

On 23 April 2015, Claus Atzenbeck <claus.atzenbeck@freenet.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 at 10:46am +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>
> >Well, at least, this is consistent with both regexp engines ;)
> >
> >I think the problem is, that the '^' prevents a match of the following word.
>
> Apparently this is the case. I'm wondering why.
[...]

Because the anchor is not inside the lookbehind group, thus it isn't
optional. Since the lookbehind group is matched with zero width, you're
effectively asking Vim to match /\v^\w+ .

/lcd

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