Re: Search within results from More prompt?

On 15/08/12 03:45, Blue wrote:
> 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.
>

By setting 'wildmenu' (which requires a Vim compiled with +wildmenu,
which means a Normal, Big or Huge version) you can get a menu on the
statusbar (Tab or → goes forward, Shift-Tab or ← goes back, Enter
selects, Esc abandons). The menu is sorted, but not alphabetically: see
":help {subject}" (without the quotes, and with seven letters between
the braces — in general the "best" matches come first, which, for help
tag completion, means an exact match, or a same-case match, or a shorter
match). You can also use the 'wildmode' option to influence that menu
somewhat. I use
if has('wildmenu')
set wildmenu wildmode=longest:full,full
endif
but YMMV.

See
:help {subject}
:help 'wildmenu'
:help 'wildmode'


Best regards,
Tony.
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