I want to find a line that has both ‘foo’ and ‘bar’ in this order but not necessarily next to each other.
I tried the following and it didn’t work:
/foo.*bar
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I want to find a line that has both ‘foo’ and ‘bar’ in this order but not necessarily next to each other.
I tried the following and it didn’t work:
/foo.*bar
Use:
The ‘magic’ setting determines how VIM treats special characters in regular expressions. When it’s off VIM treats all chars literally, meaning that the expression you wrote
foo.*barwill actually search for that string. However, when ‘magic’ is on then special regex chars get their special meaning and it works more like you expect. It is recommended to always use:set magicunless dealing with really old Vi scripts, so just add it to your vimrc and you’ll be set.