Re: Search anomaly?

Don't know if this helps but if you have 

aaaa

Vim will find the first set of aa's and go to the second set of aa's as if it was 'aa aa'.  Assuming because it already included the 2nd a in the first set of aa's.

On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 2:22 PM Arun E <aemails@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

With a buffer having just..

aaa
bbb
aaa

..and with the cursor on the first 'a' on the first line, when you search for 'aa', the hit on the first line -- the 'aa' starting at column 2 -- is not found, rather the cursor lands on the 3rd line. Is this a documented behavior? It is the same behaviour in vim 8 and 9. I have not tried other versions.

Playing around on it a bit more, I kinda understand why. Vim seems to try to match the "aa" in the current position, and avoid the 'a' in column 2 for subsequent matches. A zero width pattern seems to hit all occurrences (\(aa\)\@=).

Anyway, the current behavior is very confusing, perhaps should be documented if not done already.

Regards,

-Arun

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