Comments on: Going to the End of a Search Highlight http://www.derekwyatt.org/2009/08/27/going-to-the-end-of-a-search-highlight/ Vim, OO Design and Piles of Uselessness Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:55:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Derek Wyatt http://www.derekwyatt.org/2009/08/27/going-to-the-end-of-a-search-highlight/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Derek Wyatt Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:48:22 +0000 http://www.derekwyatt.org/2009/08/27/going-to-the-end-of-a-search-highlight/#comment-22 But that's exactly what I've done above. The "//e" is changing the search to go to the end. However, what I didn't like is that it fundamentally changed the search permanently so that when I hit 'n' or 'N' it went to the end of the search, which is not what I had *originally* intended, so I put the original search back in the search register so that 'n' and 'N' did what I wanted. So now you can search forward with /mysearch and then hit CTRL-e to go to the end of it, hit 'n' to move to the beginning of the next match OR hit CTRL-e again to go to the end of the next match instead. Just manually typing /search_term/e is a real pain in the butt. But that’s exactly what I’ve done above. The “//e” is changing the search to go to the end. However, what I didn’t like is that it fundamentally changed the search permanently so that when I hit ‘n’ or ‘N’ it went to the end of the search, which is not what I had *originally* intended, so I put the original search back in the search register so that ‘n’ and ‘N’ did what I wanted.

So now you can search forward with /mysearch and then hit CTRL-e to go to the end of it, hit ‘n’ to move to the beginning of the next match OR hit CTRL-e again to go to the end of the next match instead.

Just manually typing /search_term/e is a real pain in the butt.

]]> By: Nikos Aggelidis http://www.derekwyatt.org/2009/08/27/going-to-the-end-of-a-search-highlight/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Nikos Aggelidis Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:09:08 +0000 http://www.derekwyatt.org/2009/08/27/going-to-the-end-of-a-search-highlight/#comment-21 please delete the first post hi Derek! To set the cursor to the end of a match you can do /search_term/e also the following work: /search_term/e : cursor set to End of match /search_term/e+1 : cursor set to End of match plus 1 /search_term/s-2 : cursor set to Start of match minus 2 please delete the first post
hi Derek!

To set the cursor to the end of a match you can do

/search_term/e

also the following work:

/search_term/e : cursor set to End of match
/search_term/e+1 : cursor set to End of match plus 1
/search_term/s-2 : cursor set to Start of match minus 2

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