Re: searching and cursor postion

2011-04-13 Thread Richard Livornese
Folks, Thanks. Completely missed the Ex vs. Normal mode. That does it. Rich -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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

Re: searching and cursor postion

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Schmidt
On 14/04/11 11:19 AM, John Beckett wrote: Richard Livornese wrote: I'm trying to figure out how the correct command to search for a string and have the cursor positioned at the end(or beginning) of that string. From the documentation, it seems to me this should work: /string/e But when I try

RE: searching and cursor postion

2011-04-13 Thread John Beckett
Richard Livornese wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how the correct command to search > for a string and have the cursor positioned at the end(or > beginning) of that string. > > From the documentation, it seems to me this should work: > > /string/e > > But when I try that I get the message: E481:

Re: searching and cursor postion

2011-04-13 Thread Tim Chase
On 04/13/2011 04:03 PM, Richard Livornese wrote: I'm trying to figure out how the correct command to search for a string and have the cursor positioned at the end(or beginning) of that string. From the documentation, it seems to me this should work: /string/e But when I try that I get the mes

Re: searching and cursor postion

2011-04-13 Thread Jean-Rene David
* Richard Livornese [2011.04.13 21:00]: > I'm trying to figure out how the correct command to search for a string and > have > the cursor positioned at the end(or beginning) of that string. > > > From the documentation, it seems to me this should work: > > /string/e Indeed it should. > But

searching and cursor postion

2011-04-13 Thread Richard Livornese
I'm trying to figure out how the correct command to search for a string and have the cursor positioned at the end(or beginning) of that string. >From the documentation, it seems to me this should work: /string/e But when I try that I get the message: E481: No range allowed. Can someone sho