patch 8.0.0675: 'colorcolumn' has a higher priority than 'hlsearch' commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/774e5a9673260b1b8b88463669213a96637f72e8 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Jun 25 18:03:37 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.0675: 'colorcolumn' has a higher priority than 'hlsearch' Problem: 'colorcolumn' has a higher priority than 'hlsearch', it should be the other way around. (Nazri Ramliy) Solution: Change the priorities. (LemonBoy, closes #1794)

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