Re: Simple search across lines?

> Preben 'Peppe' Guldberg wrote:

> [on ignoring newlines when searching]

> If you ignred newlines as a character, the "you\ndid" sequence above
> would not be destinguished from "youdid", so you would not match start
> of word before did.

I see, I had assumed that there would be a white space in there. I
guess that isn't needed is it?

> > Since the philosophy of vim seems to be to minimize the number of key
> > strokes, I had hoped that there might be some search sequence that
> > would make the match ignore all new line characters.

> Sometimes things cannot be generalised very easily.

That is what I was afraid of. It sounds like I need to learn something
about writing vim functions.

Thanks,
Shawn

Peppe

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