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I would like to search the word under my prompt on vim. For this, i tried to press touch *. But, if the word i want to search is #foo, as an exemple, vim only searches word foo (without hashtag), so it fails.
In fact, hashtag is not considered in the word, which is confirmed when i try to go to the next word from # with w.
Do you know how i can search effectively #titi by pressing * on my keyboard?
Thanks.
What is considered to be part of a word is defined, I think, by iskeyword. You can try to change this setting to include # and see if it solves your case.
More info: :help 'iskeyword'
iskeywordconsider this: how should all of the non-keyword characters that are fully or partially pattern atoms (i.e. they are special in a regex) be handled. Existing*functionality doesn't need to worry about how to handle*,?,(, etc. That functionality would need to be well defined.g*instead of*and continue jumping usingnuntil I find what I am looking for.