On Fr, 02 Sep 2011, John Goche wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am used to searching for the word under the cursor
> by hitting the '*' character and then navigating with the
> 'n' (next match) and 'N' (previous match) commands.
> But now suppose I have more than one word under
> the cursor, eg.
>
> foo.bar.cat.nav
>
> the cursor is over "bar". I want to search for "bar.cat".
> That should be three words including the dot. I would
> like to give the command
>
> 3*
>
> but it does not work as I wish. Instead I have to specify
> the '/' (forward slash) and type bar.cat manually.
>
> Anyone have a solution or should I submit a feature request?
You could use g* which works like * but doesn't add word boundaries to
the search term. This way, it should also match at words starting with
bar
regards,
Christian
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