How to find '-s' inside a vim search

Question

I use Vim to read man pages. But I'm having trouble searching for variables. For example I use:

/\<-s\>

to search for '-s', but it doesn't find anything. Grrr. I see it in the file. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

/-s works just fine for me.

Answer 2

\< matches the beginning of a word, and - normally isn't considered a word character. Do :set iskeyword? to see what characters are considered word characters.

Try this:

:set iskeyword+=-
/\<-s\>

Should work then. See :h /\< and :h 'iskeyword'.