Search anomaly?

Hi,

With a buffer having just..

aaa
bbb
aaa

..and with the cursor on the first 'a' on the first line, when you search for 'aa', the hit on the first line -- the 'aa' starting at column 2 -- is not found, rather the cursor lands on the 3rd line. Is this a documented behavior? It is the same behaviour in vim 8 and 9. I have not tried other versions.

Playing around on it a bit more, I kinda understand why. Vim seems to try to match the "aa" in the current position, and avoid the 'a' in column 2 for subsequent matches. A zero width pattern seems to hit all occurrences (\(aa\)\@=).

Anyway, the current behavior is very confusing, perhaps should be documented if not done already.

Regards,

-Arun

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