Find word under cursor uses smartcase settings

[Valve]

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Environment:

• VSCode Version: 1.12.2
• VsCodeVim Version: 0.8.4
• OS: MacOS 10.12.5

What happened:
When pressing * (Shift + 8 on my keyboard), I expect it to loop over words under cursor.
When there is a word in different cases, looping stops.

What did you expect to happen:
Shift + 8 should loop through all occurrences of the word of the same case in a document

How to reproduce it:

Create a document with:

test
TEST
test

position your cursor on line 1 column 1, then press *. The cursor should jump to line 3. Pressing it again should make the cursor jump to line 1.

This plugin makes the cursor jump to line 2 and then it stops working.

[Chillee]

The reason behind this is that we use your smartcase/ignorecase settings for * as well. Thus, when you press * the first time, it'll ignore the case and jump to TEST. However, when you press * again, it's now on a word with capital letters, and smartcase causes it to not ignore the case.

I would suggest using n to loop through words regardless, but this is a bug.

[Valve]

Thanks!
Although n looping works, it is not very convenient. With * I can start the search and loop with the same key, with n, I need to start the search with * and then press n.

[pattersongp]

Please fix this. Not only is it unauthentic for / and * to be case insensitive, asking the user to have another setting for this default setting hurts the usability of the plugin and makes it less attractive to new users coming from Vim.

[J-Fields]

@pattersongp / definitely works correctly for me. What are ignorecase and smartcase set to for you?

[pattersongp]

@J-Fields I unselected smartcase and ignorecase and / * # seem to be working for me. Thanks