This is a plugin for Vim, that allows searching for visually selected text.

It was created by Raymond Li, and published in vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip171.

It has been copied to this repository for easier install with tools like Vundle or pathogen.

You can use any of those methods:

• Use pathogen (the git repository of this plugin is https://github.com/joseluis/vsel-search.vim.git)

• Use Vundle by adding to your .vimrc Vundle plugins section:

  Plugin 'joseluis/vsel-search.vim' " Allow searching for visually selected text

  Then remember to call :PluginInstall.

• Manually, by downloading the file vsel-search.vim and moving it into your Vim runtime directory (~/.vim on UNIX/Linux and $VIM_INSTALLATION_FOLDER\vimfiles on Windows).

• Press * to search forwards for selected text, or # to search backwards.
• As normal, press n for next search, or N for previous.
• Handles multiline selection and search.
• Whitespace in the selection matches any whitespace when searching (searching for "hello world" will also find "hello" at the end of a line, with "world" at the start of the next line).
• Each search is placed in the search history allowing you to easily repeat previous searches.
• No registers are changed.

• A global variable (g:VeryLiteral) controls whether selected whitespace matches any whitespace (by default, VeryLiteral is off, so any whitespace is found).
• Type \vl to toggle VeryLiteral to turn whitespace matching off/on (assuming the default backslash leader key).
• When VeryLiteral is off, any selected leading or trailing whitespace will not match newlines, which is more convenient, and avoids false search hits.