[ale] VI vs perl RE question

[Kenneth W Cochran]

Hi again, your email still gets munged somehow; any ideas?
I'm including your ALE message here; looks like some kind of
line-termination getting clobbered.
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On Wed February 1 2006 7:17 am, Jim wrote:> I'm trying to use vi to search for something enclosed in quotes,> using perl RE I get a hit with $var =~/"(.*?)"/; Â But using the same> re in vi doesn't work. Â Is there an equivalent search in v
 /usr/share/vim/vim63/doc/*.txt                      The Vim documentation files.  Use ":help doc-file-list" to get the com‐                      plete list.

if you know ED commands you can search on almost anything in VI.the slash command is how you search:/word_phrase_expression
use the backslash for special characters
-- Paul CartwrightRegistered Linux user # 367800 _______________________________________________Ale mailing listAle at ale.orghttp://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale

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