Make * and # work as in vim

[Kristoffer Lundén]

Feature request: Make * and # work as in vim.

Basically, jump the next (or previous) occurrence of the current word under the cursor. I use this a lot and it would be very helpful.

See ":help *" in vim. :)

[Stephen Moore (delfick)]

I plan to create a search mode sometime in the future (probably at the end of this year)

When I do that, I'll make sure to implement this.

[Stefan Bethge (kjyv)]

This looks helpful http://github.com/jessevdk/gedit-commander/tree/master/modules/find

[Stefan Bethge (kjyv)]

I added this (without a new search mode though) in my branch lp:~kjyv/vigedit/various
Please test ;)

[Stefan Bethge (kjyv)]

Improved this to search for tokens instead of 'words' as gedit/gtksourceview provides it. This is much more similar to vim now.
The only thing missing is that vim only searches that token, not it is also found if it's a substring of other token. I don't really know if the search facilities of gedit can do that, ideas?

[Stephen Moore (delfick)]

Perhaps if use your method to determine the token and then use the method I was using before to search for that token ?