Hi Christian, On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org> wrote: > Hi Yegappan! > > On Do, 14 Jul 2016, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> My wish list for extending the Vim search feature: >> >> 1. When searching for a pattern, pressing a key at the search prompt >> should jump to the next or previous match. >> 2. After jumping multiple times from the search prompt, pressing the >> escape key should restore the cursor to the original cursor position >> before the search. >> 3. Pressing backspace at the search prompt to erase a few characters and >> then typing additional characters should start the search from the >> previously matched position and not from the original position. >> 4. As characters are typed at the search prompt, all the matching text >> should be highlighted (multiple matches). This can be turned on/off by >> an option. >> >> I know there are some Vim plugins that support some of these features. >> But it will be useful to extend the built-in Vim feature to support these >> features. > > Here is an experimental patch, that does this using Ctrl-N Ctrl-P in > search mode, when 'incsearch' is set. I am not super happy, about > depending on 'incsearch', but on the other hand, Ctrl-L already only > works when 'incsearch' is set. Also I am open to suggestions for > alternative keys, although I must admit, Ctrl-N/Ctrl-P seem like logical > choices. > > It doesn't do everything you want, but it seems to work well for me. I > made it so, that pressing enter will remain at the current selected > match, which seems obvious and so I did not need to introduce a new key > function. Pressing ESC however will return the cursor to the position > where you started with the search. > > This was just written very fast, I am pretty sure, there are some bugs > lying around and also tests are missing. But if this turns out to be > useful, I'll work more on it (and add a test of course). > > Comments welcome, >
Thanks for implementing this feature. I am very happy to see this. I tried the feature and faced the following issues: 1. When pressing CTRL-N or CTRL-P to jump to the next/previous match, the 'nowrapscan' setting is ignored and the search wraps around the file. 2. After pressing CTRL-N couple of times, erasing the entire search pattern and typing a new pattern doesn't search from the original cursor position. Instead the search starts from the last matched position. 3. Searching for a pattern, pressing CTRL-N (which doesn't find a next match) and then pressing CTRL-L to copy the next character from under the cursor doesn't work and also the search highlighting is removed. Regards, Yegappan -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
