Question

The vim * star / asterisk search (:help star) is a great feature which lets you find the next occurrence of the word the cursor is over. Unfortunately it treats dollar-prefixes as part of the string, so if I press * while over the ‘SearchTerm’ in the class name it finds ‘SearchTerm’ in the comment, and ‘$this->SearchTerm’, but not ‘$SearchTerm’:

class SearchTerm  {     /* do something with SearchTerm */      var $SearchTerm;      function DoStuff()      {          return $this->SearchTerm;     } } 

Is there a way of telling star search to ignore the $-prefix?

Just to expand on Haes answer:

I needed to remove $ from iskeyword

:set iskeyword         # iskeyword=@,48-57,_,192-255,$  :set iskeyword-=$      # remove the $ as an acceptable word character 

Answer 1

Actually using vim 7.2 on Mac, star search exactly works as you would like it to do.

EDIT: Check what your ‘iskeyword’ (:set iskeyword) is set to because star search is based on this option to find the word search term.

Alternatively, you could could use ‘g*’ (:help gstar) to get a partial search for the word the cursor is over.

Hope this helps somehow.