Vim Asterisk Search 🔎

My favorite thing about Vim is how deep it goes. I learn new things every day, even after several years of daily use. Asterisk (*) search was one such example from this week.

Typing * over any word initiates a search of the current buffer for the next instance of that word. It actually transfers the folllowing into the command bar, with word boundaries included (hovering over the word foo):

/\<foo\>

This is vanilla Vim, from the patterns library.