vim-asterisk: * -Improved

Introduction

asterisk.vim provides improved * motions.

1. stay star motions (z prefixed mappings)

z star motions doesn't move your cursor.

2. visual star motions

Search selected text.

3. Use smartcase unlike default one

Default behavior, which see ignorecase and not smartcase, is not intuitive.

4. Keep cursor position across matches

Keeping cursor position while itering over matches is handy for refactoring.

Tips: nmap § will allow you to use asterisk as multiple cursors in a vim way

Installation

Neobundle / Vundle / vim-plug

NeoBundle 'haya14busa/vim-asterisk'
Plugin 'haya14busa/vim-asterisk'
Plug 'haya14busa/vim-asterisk'

pathogen

git clone https://github.com/haya14busa/vim-asterisk ~/.vim/bundle/vim-asterisk

Usage

map *   <Plug>(asterisk-*)
map #   <Plug>(asterisk-#)
map g*  <Plug>(asterisk-g*)
map g#  <Plug>(asterisk-g#)
map z*  <Plug>(asterisk-z*)
map gz* <Plug>(asterisk-gz*)
map z#  <Plug>(asterisk-z#)
map gz# <Plug>(asterisk-gz#)

If you want to set "z" (stay) behavior as default

map *  <Plug>(asterisk-z*)
map #  <Plug>(asterisk-z#)
map g* <Plug>(asterisk-gz*)
map g# <Plug>(asterisk-gz#)

To enable keepCursor feature:

let g:asterisk#keeppos = 1

Special thanks

|asterisk.vim| uses the code from vim-visualstar for visual star feature.

• Author: thinca (https://github.com/thinca)
• Plugin: https://github.com/thinca/vim-visualstar

Author

haya14busa (https://github.com/haya14busa)