Re: Bug/inconsistency in /\%'/ in linewise-vs-characterwise?

Tim Chase wrote:

> Coming up in this thread[1] on Reddit, I highlighted some text in
> *characterwise* visual mode ("v") and hit <esc> to end visual mode.
> With 'hls' set, issuing
>
> /\%'<\_.\{-}\%'>/
>
> properly highlighted the range as expected.
>
> So then I highlighted some text in *linewise* visual mode ("V") and
> hit <esc> and the highlight was removed. Using "n" to search for the
> next match gave me an
>
> E486: Pattern not found: \%'<\_.\{-}\%'>
>
> which seems mistaken. Having done the linewise search, I can use
>
> `<
>
> and
>
> `>
>
> which both jump properly to the corresponding endpoints of the
> linewise visual selection, so in theory the
>
> \_.\{-}
>
> should match everything in between (non-greedy). I tried prepending
> both
>
> \%#=1
>
> and alternatively
>
> \%#=2
>
> to force the regex parsing engine, but both were equally unsuccessful
> with linewise mode. So it doesn't seem to be some weird edge-case of
> either engine.
>
> AFAICT, the regex *should* work for linewise visual selections, but
> for some reason doesn't.
>
> Is this a bug? Or just my misunderstanding of something?

I guess the problem is that the '> mark is at "MAXCOL". That means "at
the end of the line". But that position doesn't actually exist, so
searching for "\%'>" fails.

It probably works better when \%'> matches just beyond the last
character of the line, like /\n does. You can create an issue for that.

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