Ideas for searching within the visible page?
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Description
Whenever I successfully yank a bunch of text without touching my mouse, I get a warm feeling inside, but unfortunately I'm new with vim and the only way I know of doing it is not great.
What's the best way of going from nothing to yanking a specific phrase from the page? The only thing I became sort of proficient with is slash search -> visual selection -> yank.
I'm staring directly at some text on the page, start searching for it with /somete but then the screen runs away to some other match at the top and I lose focus. I think if there was a way of using slash searches on the visible viewport only, I'd use that as my default.
Does anyone have better workflows?
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Research direction
The issue names no file, test, or entry point and asks for workflow advice around slash search, visual selection, and yank. Reproduce the described search behavior in Vimium, then define a concrete viewport-scoped-search behavior and a testable expected result before implementation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, vim
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100