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William B
William B

Reputation: 1419

Command to move cursor to matched pattern in vim

I know /dog<CR> will place my cursor at the first instance of dog, however I'm not getting the same effect when using a command.

I've tried the following:

:command FindDog /dog

:command FindDog exec '/dog'

:command FindDog :normal /dog<CR> (this one seems to just hang until I Ctrl-C)

Something tells me I'm doing this wrong.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 118

Answers (2)

Kent
Kent

Reputation: 195289

Perhaps you want to know that, :/dog<cr> works too. It does the same as /dog. You don't have to call the search() function. If you would like to create your own command, you can just do for example:

:command FindDog :/dog

Upvotes: 2

William B
William B

Reputation: 1419

Ugh. call search('dog') did the trick. I will let someone with more than a week of vim decide if this question would help anyone else or not.

Upvotes: 0

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