4. Vim Search Patterns
Lesson Content
To search for an expression just type the / key and then your search result while you are in a vim session. Once you hit enter, you can press “n” to go forward or “N” to go backward in your search results.
My pretty file is very pretty.
/pretty
will find the pretty words in the text file.The ? search command will search the text file backwards, so in the previous example, the last pretty would come up first.
My pretty file is very pretty.
?pretty
will find the pretty words in the text file.Exercise
Play with the search key, open a text file in vim with: vim [textfile] and start searching!