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 and Selection modes with '*' and '#'
function MakeSearchString(str)
return substitute(escape(@", '\\/.*$^~[]'), '\n', '\\n', 'g')
endfunction
function! <SID>VisualSearch(direction)
if a:direction == '#'
let l:rhs = "y?"
else
let l:rhs = "y/"
endif
let l:rhs = l:rhs . "^RMakeSearchString(@\")^M^MgV"
return l:rhs
endfunction
vnoremap <expr> * <SID>VisualSearch('*')
vnoremap <expr> # <SID>VisualSearch('#')
--- 8< ---
(The ^R and ^M are special chars)
This does the job for me and I think, that these mappings
are rather consistent with the rest of Vim, since they
just expand the behavior of * and #.
What exactly do you plan? Which new features shall we expect?
Best wishes,
Georg
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