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Another slew of utility lies in `:help searchoffset`, often like the following: https://til.codeinthehole.com/posts/about-vims-semicolon-search-offset/ https://

• JSR_FDED 3mo ago
  Love it, this was new to me
  • ramses0 3mo ago
    It's one of those things you'd _never_ stumble over naturally, but once you're aware of the concept, it makes a ton of sense and you can immediately think of tons of uses for it. /def new_.*(/s+8 /2026-/e /except/+1;/raise
• sudobash1 3mo ago
  For the last example given in that article: /test_.*_errors/;/errors I find it much easier to use "\zs". That tells vim where you want the "start" of the match to be. Everything before the "\zs" is just treated like context: /test_.*_\zserrors It is also useful for ":s/match/sub"
  • ramses0 3mo ago
    Noice! :-D Never knew about that (even though it might be vim-specific), but yeah, so much easier than where I'll usually have to do some trial + error to get my cursor to land where I want it. (usually in a macro, or multi-`.` edit context).