Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > Sometimes people ask me for a command to search for the text that is
> > currently visually selected. You could add a mapping for the '/' key,
> > but then you lose the possibility to extend the visual area by
> > searching for a pattern.
> >
> > Since we might need more commands in Visual mode later, and we only have
> > a few keys left to be used, we need to use two key combinations for
> > new commands in Visual mode.
> >
> > I think we can start using the '&' key. Currently it doesn't do
> > anything. For now we could add the commands:
> >
> > &/ search for the Visually selected text forward
> > &? same, backward
> >
> > Is there a good alternative?
> >
>
> & does do something, but maybe we can do without that, since ":s//~/"
> does the same (repeat last substitute without the flags) -- it needs
> six keystrokes instead of one though.
"&" currently only does something in Normal mode, not in Visual mode.
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