search for sentences that contains a few keywords (that is not in proper order)

Question

Is there script or function for vim to do search of words that is not in proper location (sorry, i don't know how to put it in question) ?

Example: This is a vim user who like the functionality which is pure manual power.

Question: I want to search a sentence which contains words "power, vim , functionality".

I have to remember the order of the keywords to do search:

/vim.*functionality.*power

Only in this way, the result will be yielded. Which is not useful.

But if i don't remember the arrangement of those keywords.. Hence when i do a search :

/power.*vim.*functionality

It will not give me the result i wanted.

What is the solution ?

Thank You in advance.

Mass · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-26T04:13:30.457

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You can use a branch syntax \&,

/.*power\&.*vim\&.*functionality

would find all lines containing all of these three words

Note that the .* are necessary as branch attempts to match all parts at the same location.

edited Sep 26 '22 at 04:13

answered May 14 '22 at 17:39

Mass

I just want to know for the sake of more diversity, otherwise i can use :LogiPat to do the search . – andrew_ysk Sep 24 '22 at 10:39
edited to clarify this is a search pattern – Mass Sep 26 '22 at 04:13
Somehow i manage to follow your syntax and get it. Thx – andrew_ysk Apr 08 '23 at 00:00

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 26 '22 at 05:08

This is an excellent use case for the LogiPat built-in plugin. LogiPat builds regular expressions using boolean logic.

In your particular example, run:

:LogiPat "power"&"vim"&"functionality"

This uses search() internally. If you want to highlight your matches, type // as usual.

score -2 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '22 at 17:28

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I think this is the only solution, i tried and it works too:

/word3\|word1\|word2

It will highlight the line with the words even when in random order.

answered May 14 '22 at 17:28

andrew_ysk

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