Selection + `*` or `#` doesn't work in all cases

[acu192]

I haven't figured out exactly what causes it to not work, but I know, for example, that if you have a / selected or newlines selected, it doesn't work. It should though! My old vim setup made this work, and furthermore it even worked where whitespace was ignored in the search pattern which was really nice. Let's try to do that with neovim...

[acu192]

This is the snippet from my old vim config (that worked great!):

" Search for visually-selected text, '*' for forward, '#' for backward.
vnoremap <silent> * :<C-U>
    \let old_reg=getreg('"')<Bar>let old_regtype=getregtype('"')<CR>
    \gvy/<C-R><C-R>=substitute(
    \escape(@", '/\.*$^~['), '\_s\+', '\\_s\\+', 'g')<CR><CR>
    \gV:call setreg('"', old_reg, old_regtype)<CR>
vnoremap <silent> # :<C-U>
    \let old_reg=getreg('"')<Bar>let old_regtype=getregtype('"')<CR>
    \gvy?<C-R><C-R>=substitute(
    \escape(@", '?\.*$^~['), '\_s\+', '\\_s\\+', 'g')<CR><CR>
    \gV:call setreg('"', old_reg, old_regtype)<CR>