Re: When searching for a single digit gn/gN visually selects too much

On Wednesday, 02 October, 2013 at 09:54:40 BST, Ryan Carney wrote:
>I think I may have found a bug, I have list the steps to reproduce it.
>
>1. open a new buffer :tabe or :e test
>2. put two single digits on different lines
>3. search using the regex '\d' (without quotes)
>4. put your cursor before or on the first digit then press gn
>
>I've tested this on vim 7.4 and 7.3.
>
>What happens on my end is both numbers, anything (newlins and characters) in between the two numbers are visually selected.
>
>What I think should happen is just the first number should be visually selected.

I think you were testing this with two two-digit numbers, eg:

12
34

When I do gn on a longer number, the cursor jumps forward two digits at a time with gn, whereas with just n, it jumps forward only one digit.

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