Hi, I don't know if you're open to patches which didn't make it upstream, but just in case... Looong tim ago I had submitted two about the :prompt{find,repl} dialogs [1,2], with no success, but I'm still using them daily since (~9 months), and i like them, and since vim-7 doesn't seem to be coming anytime soon, here they are: - the first one is a fix for the "Replace" action, which is currently very confusing because it doesn't behave like "Find" or "Replace All" (uses a raw string substitution instead of a properly interpreted replacement pattern). - the second one is an enhancement to add a "Use regexp" option to the "Find" and "Replace" dialogs, just like there is a "Case insentive" option already. That helps for matching patterns with special chars when you don't want them to be interpreted with their special meaning, or at the contrary when you want real regexp (it kills the "very nomagic" mode that is currently always used). It works with Motif, Gtk and Gtk2. [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=vim-dev&m=109961115016143&w=2 [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=vim-dev&m=110009502226733&w=2
Created attachment 65655 [details, diff] replace_fix.patch
Created attachment 65656 [details, diff] use_regexp_option.patch
We tend not to include these kinds of things if possible. People seem to get upset when we suddenly have to drop their favourite feature for some reason, so we don't usually include the patches in the first place.
