Check out \{-} (in ":help \{"). This is an "as few as possible"
version of *, so you can do:
/.\{-}::
If you want to ensure you match something, you can either do:
/..\{-}::
or
/.\{-1,}::
I tend to use the former as I don't have to think as much...
Al
On 7 October 2014 11:02, Asis Hallab <asis.hallab@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Vim experts,
>
> consider the following line
>
> glm::something mlg::else
>
> The goal is to match the words before and including the double colons. Of course
>
> /\([a-zA-Z]\+::\)
>
> does the job. But the question arose, if
>
> /\<.\+::
>
> could be restricted to match
>
> glm::something
>
> and not
>
> glm::something mlg::
>
> - So I guess my question is, is there a way to tell vim to please not
> extend the matched region to be as large as possible, but e.g. take
> the smallest possible match?
>
> Of course I browsed the documentation and asked the most popular
> search machine. I might have overlooked the answer.
>
> Help will be much appreciated.
> Have a pleasant day and
> Cheers!
>
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