According to the man-page at https://manpages.debian.org/buster/apt/apt.8.en.html and the linked https://manpages.debian.org/buster/manpages/regex.7.en.html, you should be able to use regex like apt search '(-|^)vim(-|$)' to get vim as either whole name or related packages with containing vim with leading or trailing dashes, or apt search '^vim' to get any beginning with vim—in case that helps. zypper lets me do essentially that with zypper se '/(-|^)vim(-|$)/' and such.
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I understand what you mean, and tend to agree, although I had some success with
zypper se -d '/CD.*burn/'—'CD.*(burn)|(writer)'produced more results than I’d like—for your example. It also appearsapt-cache searchalready searches descriptions by default.Looking at results for just
/CD/—amid the many poor results—it seems my earlier search missed some due to differing word usage, such as recording rather than burning, and whatnot.