Thursday, December 10, 2020

Re: Matching words within X lines [PS]

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 16:32, Gabriele F <gbfv@tiscali.it> wrote:
>
> Well if you want only from "future" I don't know, but if instead you
> want "the whole line containing
> the match, as well as the whole of the next line"
> ":g/future.*ref.*\n.*\n/p 2" seems to give that result, and only if
> there is a match (yes, I put "p 3" by mistake in the other mail).
> Of course inelegant and inflexible, I don't know if there are better ways

You are right. And in this particular case, the regex can be
simplified to "/future.*ref/".

-aw

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