Jump to selected word after a search in vim

Question

I use / followed by word to be searched to search for a word in a document. However once I find the word pressing escape just takes me back to the cursor location which is at the beginning of the document, while the word I need is somewhere in the middle. Is there a shortcut key to jump to the location of the currently highlighted word after a word search?

You could also try to include the x flag in 'cpo'. See Stay at matching search result after escape. — user938271, Sep 11 '20 at 14:38

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 11 '20 at 04:04

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Just press "Enter"!

What you're seeing is the result of set incsearch, which will show you the results of the search incrementally as you type... But you won't move to the actual match until you execute the search, by pressing the "Enter" key.

answered Sep 11 '20 at 04:04

filbranden

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Thank you very much. I can't believe I didn't try this. – user13267 Sep 11 '20 at 04:41
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@user13267 I know the feeling... incsearch can be quite disorienting when you start using it... Takes a while to get used to it. – filbranden Sep 11 '20 at 06:03

Jump to selected word after a search in vim

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