Hello I have this text:
public static Type Name = new Type();
public static Type NameX() {}
If I search:
/public static \(.\{-}\) \(\w\+\)(
I get both lines selected until the (, but I expect the first one should not be.
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, I thought that searching for \w means alphanumeric not including = or spaces, but when I add the (, it's like the \w\+ converts to .*
gVim version 9.0 patches 1-1778 on Windows 10
I would do:
/public static \(\S\+\) \(\w\+\)(
or maybe more readable using super magic:
/\vpublic static (\S+) (\w+)\(
What I believe happen on your test is that .\{-} is eating all the symbols you don't want (i.e: =, ).
Before you enter the parenthesis it does not because of its non-greedy nature (\{-}). It doesn't have to eat to find the next space. But has soon as you add the ( it has too to match and so it does.
You can analyse that by converting your search into a substituion:
:s/public static \(.\{-}\) \(\w\+\)(/1:\1, 2:\2/
