patch 8.0.0689: ~ character not escaped when extending search pattern commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/a693d0584b9a7ccce98813dda3a6badb209904c7 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Thu Jun 29 22:23:06 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.0689: ~ character not escaped when extending search pattern Problem: The ~ character is not escaped when adding to the search pattern with CTRL-L. (Ramel Eshed) Solution: Escape the character. (Christian Brabandt)

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