[Vimperator] various idiosyncracies(?) with searching

[Doug Kearns]

On 9/11/07, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <jfs.world at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Now on to the searching:
>
> - it seems that searching is by default 'set incsearch'. That can be a
> little bit confusing/inconvenient, especially when it comes to typos.
> ("Wait! I didn't mean that letter, I meant this. Can you go back and
> start searching again?"). Is there a way to do a 'set nois'?

There will be in the next release.  0.5.2pre already has 'incsearch'.
Sooner rather than later /abc<ESC> with 'incsearch' on will jump back
from the first "abc" match to the presearch page location as Vim does.

> - whereas vim always searches from "the current cursor location",
> vimperator does not, and always "resumes search from the last search
> result". What if I do a search, 'n' through all the results.. discover
> halfway that what I want is up in the higher part of the document
> instead? I cannot go back to a previous mark (or to the top of the
> page), and do an 'n' again. I have to cycle through ALL 'n's to get
> back to where I want the actual search to take place.

Yes this is a problem but no different from FF's standard behaviour.
It will search from the current cursor position but you probably need
to click in the document to set that.  As always fixing this is on the
ever expanding TODO. ;-)

Regards,
Doug