Searching
- To search for a piece of text type
/text<cr>
in normal mode. - Press
n
to go to the next occurence - Press
N
to go to the previous occurence
Recommended Options
set incsearch
to start searching as soon as you start typing the search phrase.
Regex Searches
\<
and\>
match the start and end positions of a word so/\<text\>
will find only exactly text and not when it's part of a longer word./\d
will seach for a digit./\d\+
will search for multiple digits.