Vim: Support search whole word

[haolly]

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* FEATURE REQUEST* :

Environment:

• VSCode Version: 1.12.2
• VsCodeVim Version: 0.7.1
• OS: win 10

\<word\> should be able to search the whole word

[Chillee]

Sorry, I'm confused. What is this supposed to do?

Isn't / the search command?

[haolly]

@Chillee sorry for confused, there is an example on SO, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15288155/how-to-do-whole-word-search-similar-to-grep-w-in-vim

[Chillee]

This is added with the new "enableNeovim" option (on master).

[haolly]

With the release 0.8.1, still not work

[Chillee]

@haolly You need to install neovim, set vim.enableNeovim to true, and set the path to the neovim executable to get the new functionality.

[haolly]

@Chillee I have set vim.enableNeovim to true, and add the install path of Neovim to system path,
and it still not work. the nvim could be open in the integrated console correctly, btw

[Chillee]

@haolly To be clear, this functionality currently only works in the command line, like with
:s/\<foo\>/bar.

I assumed you meant that as that's what your link led to.

[haolly]

@Chillee Sorry, I just realized the Neovim Only works in Ex mode
Normal search with /\<foo\> have not supported

[apvanzanten]

Is there any way to get this feature without attaching neovim? That seems a lot of overhead for such a simple feature.

[J-Fields]

@apvanzanten https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues/3996
You can use \bword\b

[apvanzanten]

@J-Fields Cool. Thanks! :)