Previously it would search starting at $CURSOR the first time, and one
character after/before when executing n/N. Thus, if you executed "/a"
while the current highlighted character was "a", the cursor would find
the "a" at the current position and not move, but executing "n" would
find other instances later in the line. Hoever, this does not match the
behavior of (at least) vim, which never searches for a match at the
current position.
Previously it would search starting at $CURSOR the first time, and one character after/before when executing n/N. Thus, if you executed "/a" while the current highlighted character was "a", the cursor would find the "a" at the current position and not move, but executing "n" would find other instances later in the line. Hoever, this does not match the behavior of (at least) vim, which never searches for a match at the current position.