Re: Substitution of metacharacters

On Friday, May 25, 2012 5:00:46 AM UTC-5, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 05:47:35AM EDT, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > On Fri, May 25, 2012 11:32, Chris Jones wrote:
>
> > > Search/replace behavior in the GUI is not only different than in the
> > > console version but appears to lead to inconsistencies: try a search
> > > '.*' for instance and compare with '\s\s'.
>
> > I think the search/replace dialog uses the \V atom to make the
> > search "very nomagic", so you need to use \.\*
>
> Yes, I didn't mention it in my post but I did check the GUI's setting by
> a ':set magic?' and noticed that it was (recommended for portability's
> sake by the manual..) that it is also set to 'magic' in the GUI.. same
> as the console version.
>
> Do you mean that the code overrides this setting for the GUI search..?
>

Yes...kind of. The code for the GUI automatically inserts \V in the search pattern, which is a flag for "very nomagic", which is not even settable via an option. The \V flag will override any 'magic' option setting.

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