On 09/02/11 06:43, John Goche wrote:
foo.bar.cat.nav
the cursor is over "bar". I want to search for "bar.cat".
That should be three words including the dot. I would
like to give the command
3*
This (as you may have discovered) searches for the third match of
the single word under the cursor.
but it does not work as I wish. Instead I have to specify
the '/' (forward slash) and type bar.cat manually.
Anyone have a solution or should I submit a feature request?
Knowing were to delimit and how many words/Words to find becomes
a bit tricky. However, for the most part, you can yank the terms
and then paste them into the search expression. So as above, you
can do something like
y3iw
/<c-r>"
which will yank 3 "inner words" (if the cursor is, as you say,
over "bar" and you want to search for "bar.cat", as "bar", ".",
and "cat" are each found as a word) and then control-R followed
by the double-quote (to paste the scratch register into which the
words were yanked). This doesn't escape the metachars, so the
search will then find not only "bar.cat" but "barxcat" or
"barfcat". There are ways to escape them, but you might then
want to investigate searching for visually-selected text[1].
This would allow you to use the mapping at that link to do
v3iw*
to visually select the desired 3 words and then search for the
highlighted content.
-tim
[1]
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_for_visually_selected_text
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