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Tip 171 Printable Monobook Previous Next
created 2001 · complexity basic · author Raymond Li · version 6.0
With this tip, you can select some text, then press a key to search for the next occurrence of the text. Two alternative methods are presented.
Features
- Press * to search forwards for selected text, or # to search backwards.
- As normal, press n for next search, or N for previous.
- Handles multiline selection and search.
- Whitespace in the selection matches any whitespace when searching (searching for "hello world" will also find "hello" at the end of a line, with "world" at the start of the next line).
- Each search is placed in the search history allowing you to easily repeat previous searches.
- No registers are changed.
Place the following mappings in your vimrc:
