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Text search direction in Vim

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Mar 15, 20264968 views
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Problem

After I search for "foo" by doing "?foo", I can search forward by "n" or backward by "N", however sometimes the n/N directions are flipped in the middle of search. If I restart Vim, it's OK again. What key sequence may I have pressed to cause this? How to revert back to normal mode? I don't recall …

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Fix for: Text search direction in Vim

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This can happen if you started out searching backwards with , and you pressed in the middle. Now you're searching forward, so and are switched relative to what you used to have. The same thing will happen if you started with and pressed in the middl…

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