strange behavior in vim with negative look-behind

Posted by João Portela on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by João Portela
Published on 2010-04-15T16:38:36Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 16:43 UTC
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So, I am doing this search in vim:

/\(\(unum\)\|\(player\)=\)\@<!\"1\"

and as expected it does not match lines that have:

player="1"

but matches lines that have:

unum="1"

what am i doing wrong? isn't the atom to be negated all of this: \(\(unum\)\|\(player\)=\)

naturally just doing: /\(\(unum\)\|\(player\)=\) matches unum= or player=.

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