Re: search with offset

Hi Marcin,

On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:40:19 +0000
Marcin Szamotulski <mszamot@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Vim Use,
>
> Do you know how to repeat vim search preserving the offset. For example
> /hello/;?Mark?
> the n and N commands seems to forget about the offset, well actually
> they forget about the patter and remember only the offset. I would like
> to repeat the whole search with offset though. The question is if you
> know a plugin that does it, if not I can implement it myself. I have
> found that vim remembers the whole search pattern+offset in the search
> history (:h :histget()).
>

You can:

1. Set up a mark using "ma" or whatever.

2. Record a register repeat of:

qs`a/min<CR>q

Then pressing "@s" will keep searching from this mark onward.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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