How to make vim search wrap more obvious?

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I mostly use vim (console and gvim) full screen on a large monitor. My peripheral vision tends to miss details at the bottom of the screen. Any suggestions on how to make the "search hit BOTTOM, continuing at TOP" message that appears when the current search wraps more obvious? I do set ``` set noerrorbells set novisualbell ``` in my vimrc to avoid the bell/screen flash every time I type Esc. However, re-enabling those options has no effect on search wrap (still no beep or flash on wrap). Using visual bell to indicate search wrap would work well, I think. Any idea how to implement that?

Accepted Answer

It's hard to change that behavior, you'd have to override all built-in search commands (`/`, `n` / `N`, `*`, `#`, etc.) and any custom (plugin) mappings. If this is bothering you, maybe

```
:set nowrapscan
```

is worth a try. You can then still "manually" wrap via `gg` / `G`, which will soon go into your muscle memory, yet keep you alert.

How to make vim search wrap more obvious?

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