On Wed, April 6, 2011 6:20 pm, Tim Chase wrote: > On 04/06/2011 11:00 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote: >> Simply assign your search string directly to the search-register, e.g. >> if you have your search string in the Clipboard, use: >> :let @/=@+ >> and press n to jump to the next occurence. >> >> Of course you can also assign it manually: >> :let @/='/path/with/many/slashes' > > Or you can search backwards with "?": > > ?/path/to/wherever/with/slashes > > If you want to change the direction of the search (rather than > using the somewhat awkwardly-inverted n/N commands), you can then > search forwards with no search criteria which will reuse the > previous pattern without the need to escape it. >
*g*, when searching backwards, I always get confused, whether to use n/N for my desired direction. Is 'n' keeping the direction or searching forward? And if 'N' reverses the direction and ? also reverses the direction this reverses twice? That is too confusing for me... So I try to avoid ?-search and jump to a place from which I can search forward. regards, Christian -- 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
