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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.

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  • Besides warnings about changing iskeyword consider 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.
    – B Layer
    May 5, 2019 at 23:58
  • for the rare cases I need this, I usually just use g* instead of * and continue jumping using n until I find what I am looking for.
    – Christian Brabandt
    May 6, 2019 at 11:15

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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'

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    Do be careful with this, as it does affect a lot of things
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    May 5, 2019 at 17:30
  • Of course it does affect a lot of things! How can i change keywords just for # and - (i want for exemple #foo-bar to be just one word)? i tried before but i did not succeed. The problem is that i also want to use tags with CTRL + ], so maybe i cannot do set iskeyword="" as far as i understand. Mathieu
    – user22113
    May 5, 2019 at 18:47

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