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In vim, is there a way to advance from the current line or cursor position to the next line that doesn't contain one of several regular expressions? For example, I can use /RegExp/<CR> or :g/RegExp/<CR>, but I want to go to the next line that doesn't match RegExp, which could be quite a bit further down. RegExp might be ^ inflating: \|^ extracting: . Command g!/RegExp/<CR> does not do the trick.

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I found that /^\( inflating: \| extracting: \)\@!<CR> works.

For years if not decades, I found that zero-width matches evaded intuitive comprehension, especially those of the backward and non-matching type. For this reason, I've posted this answer rather than erasing the question. If this is too elementary, just let me know in the comments and I will erase the question. Thanks.

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    No, this is great to have. I think there might be a dupe, but I can't really be bothered to go find it… so have some rep :)
    – D. Ben Knoble
    Commented Oct 4, 2021 at 21:55

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