Re: Find patterns in Gvim

On Do, 09 Sep 2021, Julius Hamilton wrote:

> From trying it myself, it seems that the "find" menu option in Gvim does not allow entering patterns or regular expressions, such as a period to represent any character, or "\n" to represent a newline, but only literal, explicit text
> matching.
>
> I was curious why this is and if there is any GUI / menu way to search for regular expression patterns or if you must use the Vim text-based command "/" for this.

Yes, I think the :promptfind and :promptreplace commands do a literal
search and replace only. If you want to use regexes, just use the `/`
(for finding) or `:%s` (for replacing) command.

Best,
Christian
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