Re: Finding all words

On 2024-10-03 15:09, Mikhail Velikikh wrote:
> > Is there a way to compose a regular expression in Vim that will find all
> > the words I want, irrespective of the order in which they occur?
>
> I would use something like this:
> \v<(quick|brown|lazy|jumps)>

That finds *any* of the words, not *all* of the words as the OP requested.

While the implementation can often end up slow if you have a large
text or lots of find-them-all terms, you (OP) can use

:help /\&

to join the conditions like

/.\{-}quick\&.\{-}brown\&.\{-}lazy\&.\{-}jumps/

-tim





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