Re: search with offset

On 07:46 Sat 01 Jun , Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2013-06-01 11:40, Marcin Szamotulski wrote:
> > Do you know how to repeat vim search preserving the offset. For
> > example /hello/;?Mark?
> > the n and N commands seems to forget about the offset, well actually
> > they forget about the patter and remember only the offset.
>
> This is strange, as n/N remember the other {offset} modifiers:
>
> /thing/e
> n
>
> goes to the end of the next "thing" match. I'd consider classifying
> this as a bug: either in behavior, or in (lack of)
> clarification in the documentation.
>
> > I have found that vim remembers the whole search
> > pattern+offset in the search history (:h :histget()).
>
> With this information, you could do something like
>
> :nnoremap n /<up><cr>
>
> to get "n" behavior, but it gets tricky when you want to reverse it
> (you'd have to swap the "/" for "?" in the "right" placs, and define
> whether you want to search backwards for pattern#1, then forwards
> for pattern#2 (what I suspect you want), or backwards for pattern#1
> and then backwards further for pattern#2.
>
> -tim
>

Thank you both Tim and Shlomi,

I tested this with vim -u NONE --noplugin so I will report it on
vim_dev. I will try to use your maps. They also have the additional
feature that they do not change the direction of searches. Let me see
if I can forget the vim defaults :D

Best regards,
Marcin

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