I find that I searching in Vim is broken. For example, when searching for a variable in my code, I often have no context
where the next variable is. Sure, I can use n to go to the next match but I dont’t get an overall picture of how and
where that variable is being used in my file. Also, I cannot easily jump from one position to another without cycling
through all of them. To fix this, I was playing around with the quickfix window to see if I can use that to better
browse my matches.
Here is what I have come up with.I think this works well for me as I can now easily switch between different mataches and I also have a context of how my match is being used.
To enable this, add the following line to your .vimrc
map <F5> /<C-r><C-w> <CR> :vim /<C-r><C-w>/g % \| copen <CR>
Go over a word and press F5 to open the quickfix window with the matches.
You can switch between the quickfix buffer and the main buffer by using