Re: Search within results from More prompt?

On Aug 14, 4:38 pm, sc <tooth...@swbell.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:36:42PM -0700, Blue wrote:
> > Is it possible to search within the results in the More prompt (using
> > '/' like the less command)? It doesn't look like there's builtin
> > support for that feature, but maybe it's possible via a plugin or
> > using $PAGER?
>
> you can use the :redir command to redirect messages to a file,
> register, or variable, then search the file, or manipulate the
> register, or however best suits your style
>
> see
>
>     :h redir
>
> for details

That would work for some cases, but the more frequent case I run into
is doing command-line completion, like :help a<tab> and get a multi-
page list that I want to search through, because the list is usually
not sorted in any discernible manner. The completion output uses the
same More prompt, so I was hoping there was some generic mechanism
that would work for this case as well.

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