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I'd like to match in Vim any whitespace character, not only normal space (U+0020) and tab (U+0009) with \s, and the other ASCII ones like form feed (U+000C) with [[:space:]], but any Unicode whitespace character, like e.g. NBSP (U+00A0), ENSP (U+2002), "asian space" (U+3000), etc., without listing them all in [].

One would like to match whole Unicode category (Zs), but Vim pattern syntax does not seem to support those, unlike eg. Perl (\p{}).

Equivalence class matching cannot be used as well. Eg. [[=a=]] matches all "aàá", but [[= =]] matches only ordinary space character.

Is there an elegant way to do it?

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  • not possible with vim regular expressions
    – Christian Brabandt
    Commented May 4, 2021 at 15:53
  • What about using perl's capabilities in a vim function, or as a filter?
    – Jens
    Commented May 5, 2021 at 6:50

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You asked for elegant, but got no answer... so here's the non-elegant way, listing all 25 characters defined as whitespace:

\(\%u0009\|\%u000A\|\%u000B\|\%u000C\|\%u000D\|\%u0020\|\%u0085\|\%u00A0\|\%u1680\|\%u2000\|\%u2001\|\%u2002\|\%u2003\|\%u2004\|\%u2005\|\%u2006\|\%u2007\|\%u2008\|\%u2009\|\%u200A\|\%u2028\|\%u2029\|\%u202F\|\%u205F\|\%u3000\)
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