Hi, On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegapp...@gmail.com> 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. >
Thanks to Christian for implementing the above features. > > 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. > It will be useful to add the above feature also :-) - Highlighting all the text matching the search pattern. This may have performance issues (if there are a large number of matches) and may need some tuning. So this can be enabled/disabled through an option. The highlighting for the current match (IncSearch) can be different from the highlighting used for the other matches. Regards, Yegappan > > 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. > > Thanks, > 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.
