Re: searching one word containing # with touch *

On 2019-05-06, Anand Hariharan wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 1:05 PM Gary Johnson wrote:
> > On 2019-05-06, Mathieu Roux wrote:
> > >
> > > Great! it seems to work...!
> > > Maybe you also know how i can search one whole lign with vim?
> > > Of course, i can use visual mode to select the lign, and then press *,
> > > but is there one faster solution?
> >
> > For that, I usually do
> >
> >     0v$*
> >
>
> The key sequence of 0v$ could be replaced with just V.

You're right. I'm careful about the difference between Y and 0y$
(the former includes the end-of-line while the latter does not) and
assumed that V and 0v$ differed the same way. They do not.

> That said, I do not think an * over a visual selection would search for the
> entire visual selection.

You're right again. I've been using my remappings of the *, # and
g* commands for so long that I forgot about all the differences
between them and the originals.

Thanks for the corrections. Sorry for sowing confusion.

Regards,
Gary

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