For years I unknowingly used some, shall we say, deviant distribution of vim that would stay at the location of the highlighted search result after hitting <Esc> in the middle of a search instead of jumping back to the original position.I've tried for more than a year now to forget that muscle memory, but I cannot for the life of me stop pressing <Esc> once what I've typed in the search has taken me to the position I'm searching for. Does anyone know a) how I can get that behavior back, b) what *nix distribution had a copy of vim that defaulted to this behavior?
Stay at matching search result after escape
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