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).
>
> You mean the search_stat patch from last week? No, I haven't looked,
> how well those two features would work together.
>
> Would it make sense to submit it as one single patch, adding several
> features at once?
Doesn't matter, just seems that they should well work together. But if
one needs more time we could include the other first.
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