Re: Searching for selected text

2006-10-02 Thread Charles E Campbell Jr
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Matt Mzyzik wrote: I don't like this one more, but it's a good alternative: g/ g? Also, I feel that one day "&" might do something in visual; at least visual line mode. "g?" is already used for rot13 encoding. "g/" is scheduled to be used to se

Re: Searching for selected text

2006-10-01 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Yakov Lerner wrote: > On 9/30/06, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >

Re: Searching for selected text

2006-10-01 Thread Bram Moolenaar
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. > > >

Re: Searching for selected text

2006-10-01 Thread Yakov Lerner
On 9/30/06, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 migh

Re: Searching for selected text

2006-09-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
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 mo

Re: Searching for selected text

2006-09-30 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Yakov Lerner wrote: > On 9/30/06, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >

Re: Searching for selected text

2006-09-30 Thread Yakov Lerner
On 9/30/06, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 migh

Re: Searching for selected text

2006-09-30 Thread Yakov Lerner
On 9/30/06, Georg Dahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled: Hi! Bram Moolenaar wrote: > &/ search for the Visually selected text forward > &? same, backward > > Is there a good alternative? I think, this is ok. For the moment I have the following lines ... vnoremap * VisualSear

Re: Searching for selected text

2006-09-30 Thread Nikolai Weibull
On 9/30/06, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "g/" is scheduled to be used to search inside the selected area Hehe, I was just about to ask if such a command wouldn't be useful :-) nikolai

Re: Searching for selected text

2006-09-30 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Matt Mzyzik wrote: > I don't like this one more, but it's a good alternative: > g/ > g? > > Also, I feel that one day "&" might do something in visual; at least > visual line mode. "g?" is already used for rot13 encoding. "g/" is scheduled to be used to search inside the selected a

Re: Searching for selected text

2006-09-30 Thread mzyzik
I don't like this one more, but it's a good alternative: g/ g? Also, I feel that one day "&" might do something in visual; at least visual line mode. --Matt On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 01:37:59PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Sometimes people ask me for a command to search for th

Re: Searching for selected text

2006-09-30 Thread Georg Dahn
Hi! Bram Moolenaar wrote: &/ search for the Visually selected text forward &? same, backward Is there a good alternative? I think, this is ok. For the moment I have the following lines in my vimrc file (I found the original code in a vim tip): --- 8< --- " Search in Visual

Searching for selected text

2006-09-30 Thread Bram Moolenaar
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 h