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I'm using searchpos instead of search is I can echo the column where the match happens, which, with example file below coincides with the matched character. 123456789 ^ | +-- cursor is here … So I gather that z in nWbz => search starts in column 0 no z in nWb => search starts at the cursor which is kind of opposite of what z is documented to do. …

\a is equivalent to [A-Za-z] so it matches only non-accented letters. I know of [=name-of-equivalence-class=], so I can clearly use something like \(\a\|[[=a=][=e=][=i=][=o=][=u=]]\), but I was wonder …

So one way to accomplish the task is to use \k instead of \a and set iskeyword=@ when the behavior described in the question is needed, e.g. when entering search mode. …

From the name, searchcount seemed promising, but in reality it isn't (if I understood correctly), because it has to do with the actual "last search", i.e. what you do with / or :s, whereas I'm actually …

be at times confusing for the eyes, when the previous search result is no more of interest. … (¹) It reads is automatically turned back on when using a search command, or setting the 'hlsearch' option …

However, I've found that it has one weakpoint, which is not necessarily negligible: if you abort the special search, i.e. you press //(changed your mind)Escape, you'll get E385: Search hit BOTTOM without … , before mapping Ctrl-S, we first clear the autocmd of point 2 above, because we don't want to cunmap <space> on subsequent searches where we don't hit Ctrl-S. leaving the search cunmaps Ctrl-S. …

In addition to other answers, look in the docs for \v which, at the beginning of the search string, makes it behave as "very magic", which means that + will work the way you want, while \+ will refer to …

In my fortran code I have a lot of blocks like the following subroutine name(arg1,arg2,arg3,...) : end subroutine and I want them to become subroutine name(arg1,arg2,arg3,...) : end subroutine nam …