How to search word under cursor?

[mileszs]

How to search word under cursor?

[ubermajestix]

Looks to me like you can just hit :Ack<CR> and it will search for the word under the cursor, no * needed.

[lukaszkorecki]

You can do this with this mapping:

    noremap <Leader>a :Ack <cword><cr>

[mostlyobvious]

it works for me just by marking word under cursor with * and hitting :Ack<CR>

[jondkinney]

None of these suggestions seem to be working for me. Can anyone else verify they are still able to do this?

[proc]

Yup, works

[jondkinney]

Yea, works for me too. I think I was trying to use it incorrectly previously. Additionally I found that you can do :Ack then ctrl-rw and it'll populate the word under the cursor into the command. This works generically too, regardless of what you're doing in command mode.

[liuyang1]

Thanks for @lukaszkorecki
It works! and so useful!

[tiborsimon]

Yep, it works for me too. @lukaszkorecki very useful shortcut ;)

[ssaid]

@lukaszkorecki great tip, thank you very much!