On Friday, June 13, 2014 6:15:26 PM UTC-5, Rob Retter wrote:
> The vim help describes the +/searchpat/ startup arg as follows:
>
> +/{pat} The cursor will be positioned on the first line
> containing
> "pat" in the first file being edited (see |pattern| for the
> available search patterns).
>
>
> That description is false when one sets nowrapscan in one's vimrc (as I do,
> because I don't like wrapscan) and one has edited a file before.
>
> The problem is, having edited a file before, there's an entry in the viminfo
> file which records the line where you left vim when you last edited the file.
>
> And now, if your search pattern appears in the file *before* that line you
> were last editing, either your line positioning is wrong (you're on whatever
> occurrence of the pattern is *after* your "last" line), or you get the E385
> error message about "search hit BOTTOM without match".
>
> vim's searching beyond that "last line you edited" rather than (as in the arg
> description) "the first line containing pat in the first file being edited").
>
> I believe vim should always begin searching at line 1 when a searchpat
> command line argument is given. Unfortunately, I don't expect that, because
> I've perceived a strong tendency in Brad to reflexively reject any bug report
> that doesn't involve vim actually crashing. Whatever else vim does is, by
> definition, correct. Sigh.
I disagree, I think the help is wrong.
+/pattern/ is actually saying "run the command /pattern/ after launching Vim".
This command is just giving a range specifier without a following command,
which always jumps to the line. Since a search pattern as a range always starts
the search at the cursor position, then it should always start from the current
cursor position.
Now, you are having a problem because your cursor doesn't start at the top of
the file.
But, that's because of an autocmd in your .vimrc, to restore cursor position
when re-editing a file. Vim's default behavior is to always start at the top of
a file.
If you want it to start at the top of the file, then do:
vim +1 +/pattern/
or:
vim +1,/pattern/
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