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In article <1992Nov2.231052.24870@kpc.com>, hollasch@kpc.com (Steve Hollasch) writes:
|> 
|>     I'm trying to set up my .exrc so that when I do a wordsearch, the line
|> containing the next pattern is centered in my window.  The current version I
|> have is the following:
|>         map n nmzz.`z
|>         map N Nmzz.`z
|>     The curious thing is that on one version of vi I have, this works as long
|> as lines don't wrap.  When it fails, though (always on another machine) it
|> ends up doing the word search for "mzz.`z".  In fact, if I do
|>         map n nfoo
|> then this will always do a wordsearch for "foo".  What's going on here?  How
|> can I set up VI so that found text is always centered in my window (as in
|> "z.")?

...close, but not quite.  Try - 

map n n^[mzz.`z
map N N^[mzz.`z

where ^[ is <Escape>.  That works fine.  By the way, you mentioned word search.
Try the following two maps out for size (I have either one mapped to ^W (Ctrl-W)

map ^W mw:co-^M`wkmvI  ^[`vll?[^a-zA-Z0-9_]^Md0s/\<^[ea\> ^[D"wdd`w@wmzz.`z
"map ^W mw:co-^M`wkmvI  ^[`vll?[^a-zA-Z0-9_]^Md0s/^[ea ^[D"wdd`w@wmzz.`z

The first map will take the word your cursor is currently on and find the next
occurrence of that word; note that it looks for an actual word as opposed to the
word being just an embedded pattern of another word.  The next occurrence of the
word is centered in your window.  You can use this in combination with your n/N
keymaps.  To find the defined word as any given pattern in the file, use the
second commented keymap.  (As usual, ^M is the <Return> key; ^[ is <Escape>)

Hope that helps :)

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