Bug#256743: vim: global search flag to span linebreaks

martin f krafft martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>, 256743@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 17 May 2005 17:09:05 +0200


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Bram, I am the Debian user who filed the wishlist. Thanks for your
reply.

also sprach Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net> [2005.05.17.1632 +0200]:
> This would be incompatible with Vi and previous Vim versions.  An
> option will cause trouble (I don't want options for regexp
> patterns anyway).

Mh, I guess it will be hard to argue this. I don't buy the first
argument though, since \_s is already incompatible with Vi, isn't
it?

> The user could make a command that takes a list of words,
> processes it and does the search.  That's not difficult to do.

True enough. I will look into this.

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