This is the second article of a series about regular expressions in Vim: Regular expressions in vim The Basics of Vim Regular Expressions Vim Regular Expressions in Depth We’ve seen, in the first article, general metacharacters we can use in our Vim regexes, as well as equivalent Perl-style regexes we can use with other tools (like GNU grep). This time, we’ll dive deeper in Vim’s regex engine by looking at more metacharacters we can use in our favorite editor.