Re: searching one word containing # with touch *

On 2019-05-13, Mathieu Roux wrote:

> 2) when i go to :h g*, i can read:
>
>
> g* Like "*", but don't put "\<" and "\>" around
> the word.
> This makes the search also find matches that are not a
> whole word. {not in Vi}
>
> Really, i don't understand what it does. If i search "france", should
> it find also "fran"? I don't understand.

If you search "fran", it will also find "france" because "fran" is
a substring of "france". If, however, you search for "\<fran\>",
the \< forces the match to begin at the start of a word and the \>
forces the match to end and the end of a word, so that it will find
"fran" but not find "france".

See

:help /\<
:help 27.9 " and scroll down to FINDING AN IDENTIFIER

HTH,
Gary

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