Am 2016-07-26 23:07, schrieb Bram Moolenaar:
Christian Brabandt wrote:
On Do, 14 Jul 2016, Yegappan Lakshmanan 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.
> 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.
>
> 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.
Here is an experimental patch, that does this using Ctrl-N Ctrl-P in
search mode, when 'incsearch' is set. I am not super happy, about
depending on 'incsearch', but on the other hand, Ctrl-L already only
works when 'incsearch' is set. Also I am open to suggestions for
alternative keys, although I must admit, Ctrl-N/Ctrl-P seem like
logical
choices.
It doesn't do everything you want, but it seems to work well for me. I
made it so, that pressing enter will remain at the current selected
match, which seems obvious and so I did not need to introduce a new
key
function. Pressing ESC however will return the cursor to the position
where you started with the search.
This was just written very fast, I am pretty sure, there are some bugs
lying around and also tests are missing. But if this turns out to be
useful, I'll work more on it (and add a test of course).
Comments welcome,
This smells like an interactive search dialog. Does this combine with
the search count? So when pressing CTRL-N it goes from "match 2 of 23"
to "match 3 of 23"? And when typing a character it goes to "match 1 of
8"? (I would think the match index is counting from the original start
position).
You mean the search_stat patch from last week? No, I haven't looked,
how well those two features would work together.
Would it make sense to submit it as one single patch, adding several
features
at once?
Best,
Christian
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