Vim Tips And Tricks: Searching

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For basic searching: /pattern - search forward for pattern ?pattern - search backward n - repeat forward search N - repeat backward

Some variables you might want to set: :set ignorecase - case insensitive :set smartcase - use case if any caps used :set incsearch - show match as search proceeds :set hlsearch - search highlighting

More cool searching tricks: * - search for word currently under cursor g* - search for partial word under cursor (repeat with n) ctrl-o, ctrl-i - go through jump locations [I - show lines with matching word under cursor

Search and replace... :%s/search_for_this/replace_with_this/ - search whole file and replace :%s/search_for_this/replace_with_this/c - confirm each replace

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