Re: Path easy-search

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

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