> How can I find the closest occurrence of a vim search (word or
> regex)? For example, if from my current cursor location the
> occurrence of the first 4 digit number going forward is 5
> lines down and the occurrence of the first 4 digit number
> backwards is 3 lines up, I would like to be taken backward.
The following should do the trick at least line-wise
(character-wise is a lot more convoluted):
function! Find(pattern)
let @/=a:pattern
let b:prev = search(a:pattern, 'nbcW')
if b:prev
let b:next = search(a:pattern, 'ncW')
if b:next
let b:cur = line('.')
if b:cur - b:prev < b:next - b:cur
?
else
/
endif
else
?
endif
else
/
endif
endfunction
command! -nargs=1 F call Find(<q-args>)
You can then use:
:F some_regexp
Hope this helps,
-tim
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