A "\v" (Posix ERE) regex config mode for Vim [Was: Dealing with empty strings in regexp.]

On 18.06.13 18:05, Paul Isambert wrote:
> Mapping "/" to "/\v" (and, slightly more difficult, ":s/" to ":s/\v")
> is something I've thought abouth doing many times but have never done,
> for some reason.

Now that's a darned good idea!

> I wish there were a "verymagic" option by default, I would have turned
> it on a long time ago.

+ 1 million

Quite a few years ago, I built Vim with a proper regex library from
another FOSS project. It provided posix ERE behaviour, which worked
beautifully, except that the Vim help broke. Maybe I should have found
the time to debug that.

Erik

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