 Tip #13: Incremental search
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February 24, 2001 18:02 |
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Yegappan |
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5.7 |
To move the cursor to the matched string, while typing the search
string, set the following option in the .vimrc file:
set incsearch
You can complete the search by pressing the Enter key. To cancel
the search, press the escape key.
<< Converting tabs to spaces |
Highlighting all the search pattern matches >>
Additional Notes
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[email protected],
September 10, 2004 3:07
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| How do I jump to the next match while doing incremental search? I want to jump before pressing enter.
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[email protected],
December 13, 2004 16:54
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| why not just hit 'n' after you hit enter?
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[email protected],
December 15, 2004 3:39
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| Well, an emacs user challenged me to do it during incremental search, and I couldn't give him an answer, so was wondering if anyone else did.
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[email protected],
December 3, 2005 14:46
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You can jump to any match by specifying a number before the / is pressed.
i.e. 2/some_text
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