Return the current character search information as a {dict} with the following entries: char character previously used for a character search (|t|, |f|, |T|, or |F|); empty string if no character search has been performed forward direction of character search; 1 for forward, 0 for backward until type of character search; 1 for a |t| or |T| character search, 0 for an |f| or |F| character search This can be useful to always have |;| and |,| search forward/backward regardless of the direction of the previous character search: :nnoremap ; getcharsearch().forward ? ';' : ',' :nnoremap , getcharsearch().forward ? ',' : ';' Also see |setcharsearch()|.