In writing some Vimscript to try to answer this question, I was exploring ways to "search for a line with pattern P in position X" (P is a search pattern, X is a number).
One way to do this would be to search for (e.g.) ^.....[a-z]
, where [a-z]
is the pattern, and 5
is the position.
But how would I use Vimscript to make .....
, from .
and 5
?