Vim: How do I search for a word which is not followed by another word?

Question

Pretty basic question, I\'m trying to write a regex in Vim to match any phrase starting with \"abc \" directly followed by anything other than \"defg\"

Answer 1

Here we go, this is a hairy one:

/\%(\%(.\{-}\)\@<=XXXXXX\zs\)*

(replace XXXXXX with the search word). This will search for everything that does not contain XXXXXX. I imagine if you did:

/abc \%(\%(.\{-}\)\@<=defg\zs\)*

This may work like you want it to. Hope this helps a little!