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

Asis,
Again, please, do not top poste. It is general list consensus to
reply below the quoted text, quoting for now repaired manually

> 2014-10-07 13:12, Asis Hallab:
> as requested I explain my test of the suggested solutions.
>
> I tried three regular expressions and used
> :set hlsearch
> to see the matched region.
>
> The original full line is
> glm::something lmg::else
>
> /\<.\{-}::
> as well as
> /\<..\{-}::
> and
> /\<.\{-1,}::
> all matched, and highlighted,
> glm::something lmg::
>
> The only thing after starting vim -U NONE -u NONE was to
> :set nocompatible
> and
> :set hlsearch
>
> This result could be obtained on vim 7.4 (MacVim) and vim 7.3 (debian
> wheezy).

Yes I expected something like this. What you see, is actually two
matches. Like I said before, your pattern just matches twice. Here is
the part of my previous mail, which I quote again:

,----
| My guess is, that you used something like /\<.\{-}::
| which does what you want, but matches twice, e.g.
|
| mlg::some::else
| ^^^^^^ the second match here
| ^^^^^ the first match here
`----

You won't see a difference with :set hls but when you use 'n' to jump
to each start of the matching region, you will notice easily.

Best,
Christian

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