commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/9bd547aca41799605c3a3f83444f6725c2d6eda9 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Fri Apr 1 21:00:48 2016 +0200 patch 7.4.1692 Problem: feedkeys('i', 'x') gets stuck, waits for a character to be typed. Solution: Behave like ":normal". (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)

Test for search('multi-byte char', 'bce')

STARTTEST
:source small.vim
:source mbyte.vim
:set encoding=utf-8
:/^Test bce:/+1
:$put =search('Ａ', 'bce', line('.'))
:1;/^Results:/,$wq! test.out
ENDTEST

Results:

Test bce:
Ａ