On 06/04/11 18:34, Christian Brabandt wrote:
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
? n n n n searches repeatedly backwards. Then hit N to search forward,
and n to search backward again.
Best regards,
Tony.
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