Text search commands

&dactyl.appname; provides a Vim-like interface to &dactyl.host;'s standard text search functionality. There is no support for using regular expressions in search commands as &dactyl.host; does not provide native regex support. It is unlikely that this will ever be available.

/ /pattern[/]<CR>

Search forward for the first occurrence of pattern.

The following escape sequences can be used to modify the behavior of the search. When flags conflict, the last to appear is the one that takes effect.

\c: Perform case insensitive search (default if ignorecase is set).
\C: Perform case sensitive search
\l: Search only in links, as defined by hinttags. (default if linksearch is set).
\L: Do not search only in links.

? ?pattern[?]<CR>

Search backwards for pattern.

pattern can use the same modifiers as for /.

Incremental searching currently only works in the forward direction. n n

Find next. Repeat the last search.

N N

Find previous. Repeat the last search in the opposite direction.

* *

Search forward for the next word under the cursor.

# #

Search backward for the previous word under the cursor.

:noh :nohlsearch :nohlsearch

Remove the search highlighting. The document highlighting is turned back on when another search command is used or the hlsearch option is set.