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Alex Bollbach
Alex Bollbach

Reputation: 4580

Create Vim Command for a Regex search

I have a few Regex expressions that I use with xVim for Xcode. Rather than repeatedly typing them out in the command bar with \<Regex>, I'd like to be able to invoke them with a custom command, like :Regex1. So I've added command Regex1 “/-\s*\(“ to my xvimrc file and restarted Xcode. When I run :Regex1 however nothing happens.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 532

Answers (3)

Tinmarino
Tinmarino

Reputation: 4041

Abbreviations ...

I understand you often use the same regex. You can use abreviations instead of a command to do a search.

ab re -\s*(

then type / + re + space and your long regex (here just "-\s*(" should expand).

... Not user defined command

User defined commands are not available in ed nor in vi nor in vim without the +eval compilation flag (:h user-commands and scroll one line up).

For a list of ex commands: http://www.csb.yale.edu/userguides/wordprocess/vi-summary.html

For a list of ed commands: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/ed.html

Upvotes: 1

Arithran
Arithran

Reputation: 1289

I would suggest using this PERL Regex plugin since it already does what you want.

https://github.com/othree/eregex.vim

Upvotes: 1

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172648

Your command wouldn't even work in original Vim. I don't know xVim, but try something along these lines:

" With cursor moving to match.
command Foo /foo/

" Just updating the search pattern (but less likely to be portable to xVim).
command Foo let @/ = 'foo'

If none of that works; try defining a mapping instead. As this is just translating keys, it has the highest chance of being supported.

Upvotes: 1

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