When trying to do a replacement with multiline mode /m, when operating on either the visual range or a specific range, the range doesn't seem to be respected.
For example, if the file is...
abc
def
iWantThis: value
hjk
lmn
opq
rst
And I do :2,4S/.*iWantThis: (\w+).*/\1/m
The result is a file that looks like:
but I'm expecting
Doing a non-greedy match at the end sort of solves it, but the range should be respected since the input should be the range, not the entire buffer... I suspect this has something to do with being able to support lookahead outside of a range??
When trying to do a replacement with multiline mode
/m, when operating on either the visual range or a specific range, the range doesn't seem to be respected.For example, if the file is...
And I do
:2,4S/.*iWantThis: (\w+).*/\1/mThe result is a file that looks like:
but I'm expecting
Doing a non-greedy match at the end sort of solves it, but the range should be respected since the input should be the range, not the entire buffer... I suspect this has something to do with being able to support lookahead outside of a range??