Re: Regular Expressions: How to restrict match extension to the first occurrence?

On 7 October 2014 12:12, Asis Hallab <asis.hallab@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Christian,
>
> as requested I explain my test of the suggested solutions.
>
> I tried three regular expressions and used
> :set hlsearch
> to see the matched region.

This option will highlight ALL matched regions. One of these regions
will be "glm::", another will be "something lmg::", so it will
highlight everything up to the second ::. If you want to only ever
match the first one on the line, prepend your search with ^ (to match
the start of the line).

Al

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