New answers tagged ex-mode
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Figured out what's happening.
Here /bar actually means :/bar which is a range spec meaning "go to next line which has bar in it". It's just like :1 which goes to line #1.
And :/bar works in a line-wise way. It goes to the the line and put cursor at column #1. So the next norm n would move cursor to bar 1, and another norm n would move to bar 2.
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normal n works for me in Ex mode.
The problem is that you mix normal mode /search with ex-mode range :/search. In your case :/search is executed and it doesn't populate @/ register thus with :normal n you try to search something else (previous interactive search?)
UPD:
i want to find all bar lines and print them
:g/bar/p
or
for line in getline(1, '$')
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