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From: FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Nicole Delbecque & Paul Bijnens)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Restricted Searches in VI
Message-ID: <91112.182420FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: 22 Apr 91 18:22:20 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.071658.1059@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
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In article <1991Apr22.071658.1059@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>,
fozzy@mips.bhpese.oz.au (Andrew Steele) says:
>
>In vi is it possible to restrict the range of a search.  Specifically
>I want to be able to search through just one function in a .c file.
>I've inherited some badly written code that has functions that just go on
>and on and I'm trying to break them up into smaller units.  To do this I need
>to be able to find where local variables are used but not if that name is
>also used in some other function later on.

I don't know of a direct way to accomplish this, but I frequently
have the same problem.  I solve as follows:
    - go to the start of the function (using [[ or ]]).
    - jump to the matching parenthesis of the function (using %)
      (and complain loudly if the function is using unbalanced {}).
    - search backwards with ?\<variable\>
    - if I reach the declaration, I am at the top of the function.
--
Polleke   (Paul Bijnens)
Linguistics dept., K. University Leuven, Belgium
FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be