Re: search limit for / ?

On Tuesday, 24 July 2012 05:32:58 UTC+1, sinbad wrote:
> how to limit the search to the current line while using / or ?

If you know the line number you can include \%106l in the search
pattern to match line 106 only.

You can also use Ctrl-R to call function line(".") to get the
current row number into the search pattern when you are typing it.

Putting it together you can make a mapping to do it for you such as
this command:

:noremap <F12> /\%<C-R>=line(".")<CR>l

Then use F12 instead of the / key

If you want / to always do this you can just do

:noremap / /\%<C-R>=line(".")<CR>l

although that might break any other configurations that assume
/ behaves in the usual way.

You can try the :noremap commands from the command mode
and if you like the behaviour, put them in your vimrc
file for future use.

regards,
Geoff

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