Searching for the visual selection in evil

Sat Oct 22 09:45:30 CEST 2011

Am Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:43:38 -0400
schrieb Tom Short <tshort.rlists at gmail.com>:

> Does anyone know how to search for the visual selection or yanked
> text?
> 
> The vim trick of / C-r 0 to search for yanked text doesn't work.

At least if you use evil's own interactive search module
(customize-variable evil-search-module, by default evil uses Emacs's
isearch for searching) the search prompt is a usual minibuffer and
therefore C-y can be used to yank the text.

Frank