On Thursday, December 5, 2013 11:25:02 AM UTC-5, ZyX wrote:
>On Dec 5, 2013 7:36 PM, "Paul" <paul.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> According to ":help pattern", a word character is defined as
>> [0-9A-Za-z]. When I press # or *, the search pattern becomes
>> \<WordUnderCursor\>. The word WordUnderCursor highlights on all
>> windows except for the netrw window (where there is a file named
>> WordUnderCursor.m). However, if I remove the anchors to the
>> beginning and end of the word in the search pattern,
>> WordUnderCursor becomes highlighted in the netrw window. I did not
>> think that netrw redefined some setting representing word
>> characters (e.g, perhaps isword) to include the dot in
>> WordUnderCursor.m, and I confirmed that there is not isword option.
>>
>> How does netrw prevent \<WordUnderCursor\> from matching
>> WordUnderCursor.m, and is there a way to prevent this prevention?
>
> According to help \> uses &iskeyword, not &isword (in fact, I do not
> know such a thing as &isword). You may override it in
> .vim/after/ftplugin/netrw.vim, but you are likely to destroy syntax
> highlighting in this case and maybe something else. Note that word
> character definition is based on &iskeyword. \w has nothing to do
> with vim word definition, see :h word and *not* :h pattern.
OK, thanks for the warning. I'll live with the current iskeyword until...well, until late one night when I frustrated and dare to try changing it. With luck, I may find that nothing much breaks other than cosmetics.
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