On 04/06/2011 12:50 PM, Christian Brabandt wrote:
? n n n n searches repeatedly backwards. Then hit N to
search forward, and n to search backward again.
I *know* that. Just my fingers...
(When I navigate code and jump around a lot, I tend to forget,
in which direction I originally searched. I usually only know
that I want to move downwards, so I hit 'n' and I hate when
Vim moves upwards...)
And the only thing worse than expecting "n" to move downwards
only to have it move upwards is having a file that's so similar
(such as a long tab/CSV file) where you can't readily tell
whether you've gone up or down :)
I confess, while Vim has a profusion of options, that's one I
wouldn't mind seeing...something that toggled between "n means
next in the same search-direction as last time" and "n means
search downward in the file". I suppose I could do something like
:nnoremap n /<cr>
:nnoremap N ?<cr>
if it really bugged me that much.
-tim
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