Emacs style incremental search?

[perapp]

Hi!
I've been using Emacs as my editor for the last 25 years and thought I would finally learn vi or vim. But found helix and I think I might actually learn to use it after 25y of Emacs hacking 😱 . One feature of Emacs I use a lot but haven't found yet is the incremental search, C-s in Emacs. Some more detail here: emacs doc, stackoverflow. Very convenient when you don't know how much of a search term you need to search for in order to find the correct spot.

Is there a similar search in helix?

[the-mikedavis]

We jump to the current match like Emacs' incremental search in /. Are you looking for the ability to jump between matches while searching (i.e. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Repeat-Isearch.html isearch-repeat-forward / isearch-repeat-backward)?

[perapp]

Hmm. Sorry. Not sure what I was doing. Probably got my Helix and Vim sessions mixed up. Yes, in Helix the / search works exactly as I would want! I should stick with Helix and forget about Vim for now. Thanks @the-mikedavis. Will keep using Helix every now and then. It's one of the few editors over the years I've felt can become my new day to day editor in the future.