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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 16:43:13 -0400
Subject: Re: [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages, why?
From: <vdharani@infernopark.com>
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>> i will modify the Look command to be case-insensitive on the first
>> letter of the word, and use it just for fun during a test period.
>
> while you're about it, i've thought for a while it'd be nice to have a
> "Lookw" command to look for whole words only, so I can easily search
> for single-letter variable names in my programs...
>
> the only current alternative as far as i can see is something like:
>
> :/(^|[^\\0-9a-zA-Z_])e($|[^0-9a-zA-Z_])
>
> to search for "e", which is a bit like hard work.

i like the idea of Lookw. I was wondering if it would be nice to have a
search facility which can search an identifier (instead of raw stream of
characters).

Thanks
dharani