Re: Finding all words

Hi,

I would use something like this:
\v<(quick|brown|lazy|jumps)>

\v - very magic
< - the beginning of a word
> - the end of a word
(quick|brown|lazy|jumps) - the words to find

Thanks,
Mikhail Velikikh



On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 at 14:51, Salman Halim <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to compose a regular expression in Vim that will find all
> the words I want, irrespective of the order in which they occur? For
> example:
>
> Some text...
> The quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dogs.
> Some other text...
>
> I want to find 'quick', 'brown', 'lazy' and 'jumps'. I don't know the
> order in which they occur, so something like 'quick.*brown.*lazy.*jumps'
> won't work. I'm trying to avoid a complicated/ugly expression that includes
> all possible orderings like '\%(brown.*lazy\)\|\%(lazy.*brown\)'.
>
> I'm hoping there is a more graceful way to do this already. I'm happy to
> write a function to convert a sequence of words to an expression, even if
> it's the 'all combinations' one.
>
> Thank you,
>
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