On Jan 28, 2008 7:34 AM, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
What behaviour do the other editors do - switch off word matching if the search string contains a non-word character?
If the beginning or ending character of the search phrase is a non-word character, then it considers that edge to always be a whole word match. In other words "def." would match in "abc.def.ghi" but not in "ab.cdef.ghi"
You can try grep's -w switch to get the idea.
- Jeff