Set the current character search information to {dict}, which contains one or more of the following entries: char character which will be used for a subsequent |,| or |;| command; an empty string clears the character search 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 save/restore a user's character search from a script: :let prevsearch = getcharsearch() :" Perform a command which clobbers user's search :call setcharsearch(prevsearch) Also see |getcharsearch()|. Can also be used as a |method|: SavedSearch()->setcharsearch()