Allow me to use ˆ to search for beggining characters

[alienbogart]

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In other versions of Doom I was able to use the ^ character to search only for candidates beggining with character. Such as inserting ˆwordˆ to serch for everyting beggining with word. That no longer works. Can I get the completion to work as before? I'm using the Vertico module by the way.

Thanks!

System information

https://pastebin.com/jVeCPgjb

[panchoh]

Currently, inserting ^foo in vertico (with evil mode enabled, as in your config) filters lines that begin with foo (nothing else before it), consistent with traditional vi behavior, where ^ is an anchor for the beginning of the line.

If you want to filter lines that contains foo, but not afoo, for instance, you can express that pattern with the also vim-standard \s character class: \sfoo. (\s meaning whitespace).

If you want to also match something like /foo, then you can use a negated character class instead: [^\w], where the \w stands for words, like this: [^\w]foo.

In your example you mention two carets, one at each end of the word. I take that your intention is to also limit what comes after. If that is the case, you can use the character class subpattern also at the other end, for full effect: [^\w]foo[^\w].

This is a mouthful, but fortunately there are shorthands available: \W is equivalent to [^\w]. Your original pattern thus becomes simply¹: \Wword\W.

Hope that it helps.

Footnotes

1. For some definition of simple ;-P. ↩