How to Search in Vim

The basic steps to perform a search in Vim are as follows:

1. Press / .
2. Type the search pattern.
3. Press Enter to perform the search.
4. Press n to find the next occurrence or N to find the previous occurrence.

1. How do I search for multiple words in Vim?
2. How do I search for a specific line in vi?
3. How do you make a search case insensitive in Vim?
4. How do I navigate code in Vim?
5. How do I find exact words in Vim?
6. How do I enable highlight search in Vim?
7. How do I search for text in Vi?
8. How do you search a line?
9. How do I search for a word in vi editor?
10. How do I stop Vim search?
11. How do you make an entire line uppercase in Vim?
12. How do I unhighlight a word in Vim?

How do I search for multiple words in Vim?

There are two simple ways to highlight multiple words in vim editor.

1. Go to search mode i.e. type '/' and then type \v followed by the words you want to search separated by '|' (pipe). E.g.: /\vword1|word2|word3.
2. Go to search mode and type the words you want to search separated by '\|'. E.g.: /word1\|word2\|word3.

How do I search for a specific line in vi?

If you're already in vi, you can use the goto command. To do this, press Esc , type the line number, and then press Shift-g . If you press Esc and then Shift-g without specifying a line number, it will take you to the last line in the file.

How do you make a search case insensitive in Vim?

Case sensitivity

You can use \c to force a pattern to be case insensitive, or \C to force a pattern to be case sensitive. For example, the search /the\c is always case insensitive, and /the\C is always case sensitive, regardless of the 'ignorecase' option.

How do I navigate code in Vim?

2. Vim Screen Navigation

1. H – Go to the first line of current screen.
2. M – Go to the middle line of current screen.
3. L – Go to the last line of current screen.
4. ctrl+f – Jump forward one full screen.
5. ctrl+b – Jump backwards one full screen.
6. ctrl+d – Jump forward (down) a half screen.
7. ctrl+u – Jump back (up) one half screen.

How do I find exact words in Vim?

Text Search

Another way to find an exact word is to place the cursor on a word, enter command mode, and type an asterisk to find more occurrences of that word. Again, use n and N to repeat the search.

How do I enable highlight search in Vim?

Now your search will always be highlighted in vim. For single time use, just use :set hlsearch in vim, which will be in effect for that instance only.
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Use the following commands:

1. Open ~/. vimrc file (or create it if it didn't exist).
2. Add set hlsearch in the file.
3. Save the file.

How do I search for text in Vi?

Finding a Character String

To find a character string, type / followed by the string you want to search for, and then press Return. vi positions the cursor at the next occurrence of the string. For example, to find the string “meta,” type /meta followed by Return. Type n to go to the next occurrence of the string.

How do you search a line?

Keyword search

After tapping Search, a text box will appear at the top of your chat. Simply enter a keyword to bring up a list of search results. 2. Tap any message result in the list and you'll be taken to where that message appears in the chat.

How do I search for a word in vi editor?

Searching for words in vim/vi

1. Press ESC key.
2. Type /vivek.
3. Hit n to search forwards for the next occurrence of word named “vivek”. You can press N to search backwards.

How do I stop Vim search?

A better way to disable search highlighting temporarily is with the :nohlsearch command (which can be abbreviated to :noh). This will clear the highlights temporarily, but they'll be turned back on the next time you perform a search.

How do you make an entire line uppercase in Vim?

2 Answers. Visual select the text, then U for uppercase or u for lowercase. To swap all casing in a visual selection, press ~ (tilde). Without using a visual selection, gU<motion> will make the characters in motion uppercase, or use gu<motion> for lowercase.

How do I unhighlight a word in Vim?

Clear highlight on pressing another key or custom map

1. Clear highlights on pressing \ (backslash) nnoremap \ :noh<return>
2. Clear highlights on hitting ESC twice nnoremap <esc><esc> :noh<return>