How can I make terms searched with `*` or `#` populate the search history?

Question

In my attempt to have * and # work in Spacemacs as they do in Vim, I've followed the solution posted at this question.

Those keys now work, but there's one hurdle more to overcome: the searched term does not populate the search history.

As an example, suppose you:

• do /aaa
• position yourself over another word, say "bbb" and hit *
• hit n

Spacemacs will search for "aaa" rather than "bbb". Is there a way to fix this behaviour?

Answer 1

You can use evil-symbol-word-search to accomplish what you want by adding the following to you init.el after loading evil

(setq-default evil-symbol-word-search t)