Hi there everyone,

Many thanks for the explanation, it's much clearer now.


2014-04-01 9:24 GMT+02:00 Mark van Atten <vanattenmark@gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Daniel Peyrolon <tuchalia@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Edit , x/^[^ ]+[ ]*[^(]*\([^)]*\)[ ]*\{[ ]*\n/ s/[ ]*\{[ ]*\n/\n\{/g
> >
> > So, it was simply a matter of changing "$" for "\n" at the x command!
>
> Yes. (In the version I gave, the replacement of the second $, the one
> in the s command, by \n was superfluous.)
>
> > How come my command didn't work?
> > It really should work with the "$", shouldn't it?
>
> In the original version, the x command matches up to the end of the
> line, but the resulting selection is no longer itself a line; so the
> subsequent s command, trying to match various things and then the
> empty string at the end of a line ($), does not succeed.
>
> But replacing, in the x command, the $ by \n leaves the result of a
> match (now one character longer because it includes the \n) a line, in
> which the s command then successfully matches $.
>
> As ever,
> Mark.
>
>


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Daniel