[Vimperator] various idiosyncracies(?) with searching

[Jeffrey 'jf' Lim]

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

huh? sorry, I'm confused. I asked about whether we can 'set
noincsearch', actually.


> > - 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. ;-)
>

This is good enough for me (for now - until I sit down to code,
perhaps...) Thanks....

-jf

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