Regular expressions in VIM

[Erratus]

Which flavour of regular expressions (like POSIX ERE; PCRE; Perl ...) does VIM use strictly?
Or does Vi IMproved 7.2 has it's own flavour/mixture?

 

[darkshadow]

as I know vim support perl regx

 

[graudeejs]

I think it's PCRE, at least so it seams....
When I tried to use Perl Regex, they didn't work

 

[darkshadow]

I think they have there own http://www.softpanorama.org/Editors/Vimorama/vim_regular_expressions.shtml , I use vim as regular editor I found it great in regx search/replace

The syntax in VIM is slightly different then in Perl, but is pretty close. This makes Perl regular expression examples relevant to VIM users.

like you should add \+
if you wana get use to vim do the following :
1- copy this directory to home /usr/locate/share/vim/vim71/tutor
2- start reading one by one and practice
that how I learned vim