A need I've had on multiple occasions is to, for example, search for the next occurance of "abcdef" but have my cursor land on the "d". In vim that's a simple

A need I've had on multiple occasions is to, for example, search for the next occurance of "abcdef" but have my cursor land on the "d". In vim that's a simple abc\zsdef It also highlights just the "def", which is nice. To highlight just the "de", you could use abc\zsde\zef Yes, you could probably use some lisp magic to do the same in emacs, but it's not nearly as easy or convenient.