Re: How to use * to search the word with dash under cursor?

On 2017-01-07 17:45, Zhe Lee wrote:
> if the cursor is on the first line first column (on `a` now). And
> then I press `*` I want to find the `a-b` but the vim just search
> `a` instead of `a-b`, so how to make * to include the dash `-`?

Add the dash to your 'iskeyword' setting:

:set isk+=-

This changes the definition of a "word", so it will also impact
things like

diw
gUiw
w
b

and a number of others.

-tim





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