title: In vi/vim, is it possible to create a mapping to concatenate words to a search on the fly?
body: <p>This questions is best illustrated in an example.</p>
  
  <p>Example sentence:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Bob went to the store. Bob bought an apple. Bob left the store.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I put the cursor on "Bob" and hit * (shift-8) to search for "Bob" in the text.
  Now I want to put the cursor on "store" and hit * (or any other key of my choosing) to now search for <code>/\&lt;Bob\&gt;\|\&lt;store\&gt;</code>.</p>
  
  <p>The purpose of this is to avoid having to type each word individually.</p>
  
  <p>Is this doable? If so how?</p>