Is there a command in Vim/Vi to move the cursor to the end of a search highlight?

Question

Are there any commands in Vim/Vi to move within a selected search segment?

For instance, if I search for a word, are there any commands to motion the cursor to the end of the highlighted segment? Say I have a word, "FishTaco" and I want to search for all instances of "Fish" and insert something after it. I know I could do a global replace, but what if I want to only make the change in a couple non-sequential instances?

I could see where it would be convenient to be able to motion the cursor to the end of the current highlighted segment to perform an action.

Answer 1

You can do it with this:

/Fish/e

The /e at the end lands your cursor at the end of the search region (instead of the first character by default.

Answer 2

If you just want to place your cursor after the last character of Fish then you could use

/Fish/e+1

which will place your cursor after the h. (Without the +1 the cursor will end up to the left of the last character.)

If you are particularly interested in placing the cursor after Fish, but only when it appears in "FishTaco" then you can try one of the following options:

You can use

/FishTaco/s+4

and your cursor will end up between Fish and Taco. The /s+4 places the cursor 4 places after the start of the search term.

You could likewise use

/FishTaco/e-3

which will place your cursor 3 places left of the left side of the last (end) character.

You can also use

/FishTaco/b+4 

because /b+4 will be treated as /s+4.