Re: Syntax match first word of line

On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 10:08:50 -0800
Bryan Richter <b@chreekat.net> wrote:

> p.s. Your search pattern is finding the first word that follows some
> whitespace, since you used \s\+ ("ONE or more whitespace chars"). Is
> that what you meant? If you wanted "the first word, no exceptions" you
> would use \s* to find "ZERO or more whitespace chars".

A better choice might be to use \W* instead. This will make non-word
characters.


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