Search ​

Emacs Lisp Autovariable: evil-search-module ​

The search module to be used. May be either isearch, for Emacs’ isearch module, or evil-search, for Evil’s own interactive search module. N.b. changing this will not affect keybindings. To swap out relevant keybindings, see evil-select-search-module function.

Default: isearch

Whether to use regular expressions for searching in / and ?.

Default: t

Emacs Lisp Autovariable: evil-search-wrap ​

Whether search with / and ? wraps around the buffer. If this is non-nil, search stops at the buffer boundaries.

Default: t

Emacs Lisp Autovariable: evil-flash-delay ​

Time in seconds to flash search matches after n and N.

Default: 2

Emacs Lisp Autovariable: evil-ex-hl-update-delay ​

Time in seconds of idle before updating search highlighting. Setting this to a period shorter than that of keyboard’s repeat rate allows highlights to update while scrolling.

Default: 0.02