Re: match multiple non white space character except ]

On Sunday, September 15, 2013 11:39:21 AM UTC-4, ZyX wrote:
> On Sep 15, 2013 7:04 PM, "rob" <apollo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > I'm trying to match the pattern "+word" while at the same not matching "[+]".
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> > /\v\+\S+ matches "+word" just fine but also picks up the "+]" which I want to avoid.  I guess "]" fits the "non-whitespace character" constraint.
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> > I've tried a few variations using the "@!" but none of which I can get right.
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> Right variant is /\v\+\]@!\S+. But why don't you use \w?
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> > Thanks for any guidance you can provide.
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Thanks. I didn't use \w because "foobar" can contain special characters also - not limited to [0-9A-Za-z_]

Apologies for not mentioning this important detail: I'm matching these patterns for syntax higlighting.

Interestingly this pattern works in regular search but not for syntax matching.
i.e. searching for "/\v\+\]@!\S+" correctly matches "+foobar" and doesn't match "+]" as specified.

But specifying
:syn match foobarGroup /\v\+\]@!\S+/
also seems to match "+]"

I was surprised about the difference, sorry again for leaving out the detail in my earlier post - I didn't know it made a difference.

Thanks again.

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