Re: Matching words within X lines [PS]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 19:35, Gabriele F <gbfv@tiscali.it> wrote:
>
> On 07/12/2020 13.59, A. Wik wrote:
> > Now, I want to do the following
> > :redir @m
> > :g/future.*ref.*\n.*\n
> > :redir END
> >
> > Alternatively, instead of redir, I can use [...]/y M at the end of the
> > :g command.
> >
> > Alas, :g includes only the line matching "future.*ref". I want to
> > capture the whole match. Is there a way to do that?
>
> It would seem that what's wrong with the first command is simply that
> :p, which is the command used by default by :g, by itself prints only
> *one* line. If you instead explicitly use :p {count}, e.g.
> ":g/future.*ref.*\n.*\n/p 3", it seems to work.

Yes, but I want to collect the text that was *matched* by the pattern,
so, with ":g/future.*ref.*\n.*\n", I want the "future" until the end
of the next line. Actually, what I want is the whole line containing
the match, as well as the whole of the next line, but that is a simple
matter of adding a "^.*".

> But, was this what you meant to ask in the first question, or an
> additional issue?

An additional issue.

> «trying to match a couple (maybe more later) of words occurring within 3
> lines of each other in any order» seems to mean more what Tim helped you
> with...?

That was the question he helped me with. I ran into the additional issue later.

-aw

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