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I can't seem to find the answer to this anywhere.

I'm trying to get started with include-search, and since I'm working in golang right now, I'm trying to get vim to include a set of imported files.

E.g.

1    import (
2        "foo"
3        _path "bar"
4        "baz"
5    )

I want everything inside double-quotes, between lines 1 and 5. I got as far as the following but it still only matches one line:

/\v^import \((\n\s+"\zs.*\ze")*

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  • This is a limitation of vim’s regex :( it’s hard (not impossible) to get multiline matches. I wonder if it’s easier to just match import lines, and use includeexpr to find all the bits between parens?
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Oct 16, 2020 at 13:23
  • It may theoretically be possible with zero-width but 2nd paragraph of :h /\@<= tells us it's not if you have multiple lines you want to "ignore". I got \(^import (\([^"]*"[^"]\+"\)\{-}\)\@<=[^"]*"\zs[^"]\+\ze" match each files of your example if they are joined in one line. But even there, setting include to this pattern only finds the first one. @dbenknoble I don't know if includeexpr can import multiple files as it is also used for gf. Nevertheless, @harv maybe look how/if vim-go does it.
    – perelo
    Oct 18, 2020 at 14:16

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