extra parenthesis search and replace bug
jasjuang opened this issue · 2 comments
jasjuang commented
For example, let say I have
(test)
:%s/(\(.*\))/[\1]/g
In vim it shows
[test]
However, typing this in vintageous shows
[(test)]
deconvolved commented
Vintageous uses the Python regex engine, which takes the opposite approach of vim with regard to literal parentheses. In a Python regular expression, you escape the literal parentheses, and a group is represented by bare parentheses. So to achieve the same result as vim for your test, you would instead use the following.
:%s/\((.*)\)/[\1]/g
I believe it is stated somewhere that implementation of vim regex syntax is not a goal of the project, so this issue will likely not be considered a bug.
jasjuang commented
That works. Thanks for the explanation!