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— a file's text, a shell's scrollback, anything — for the pattern, plain
and case-insensitive, and writes one row per matching LINE into a
"+Search" pane — the FIRST hit on that line, named as a location, with
- the line's own text after it.
+ the line's own text after it — and then GOES to the first of those rows.
+ That last part is nothing new to learn: it is the step `n` is and the
+ look Enter is, run for you in the list that has just answered. A pattern
+ that matched nothing opens its empty buffer and goes nowhere.
That is an OUTPUT BUFFER: a file pane with no file behind it, so it has
no Save, but everything else about it is an ordinary buffer you can read,
edit, select and look in. It is not a document, though, and never takes a
column of its own: it opens BELOW the pane that asked for it, in that
pane's column, be that a file or a shell — and a file you then open from
- its rows goes where files go, not under the list. `n`/`N` walk those
- rows, and walking is ALL they do: a press moves the SELECTION to the
+ its rows goes where files go, not under the list. `n`/`N` carry on down
+ those rows, and walking is ALL they do: a press moves the SELECTION to the
next look-able thing and opens nothing, so you can step past nine hits
to reach the tenth without opening the nine. Enter — the look chord —
opens the one you stopped on. The walk is a RING over PANES and not