Re: What happened to "Search hit BOTTOM, continuing at TOP"?

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 08:56:15AM +0200, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> :help 'shortmess' still says that the s flag means not to give the
> "Search hit BOTTOM, continuing at TOP" (or vice-versa) message when
> searching, which I understand as meaning that in the absence of this
> flag, the message will be given. Well, I just noticed that in my
> current gvim build (Big 8.1.1935) it isn't, and yet the flag is
> absent. Maybe I unwittingly set some other option preventing it? Or
> has it been retired? I found this message useful to avoid unwittingly
> looping several times in succession through a file's text.

It's been replaced by the new [N/M] index shown on the bottom right.
Specifically, a little W appears after it, e.g.

[1/7] W

You can turn off the entire index with :set shortmess+=S and you'll get
the old "search hit TOP/BOTTOM, continuing at BOTTOM/TOP" message back.

(I like the [N/M] index, but I also think the W is way too subtle, and I
find myself looping again and again.)

Marius Gedminas
--
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of CPU cycles and memory than my favourite low-level language, C++.
-- Thomas Guest

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