Christian Brabandt wrote: > 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,
This smells like an interactive search dialog. Does this combine with the search count? So when pressing CTRL-N it goes from "match 2 of 23" to "match 3 of 23"? And when typing a character it goes to "match 1 of 8"? (I would think the match index is counting from the original start position). -- "When I die, I want a tombstone that says "GAME OVER" - Ton Richters /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- 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.
