Questions tagged [search]
Searching for text with / or search(). For find/replace operations, use tag [substitute] instead.
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Regular expression for searching IP addresses
I opened up a document in vim and I want to search the document for IP addresses. So I used this command
/[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}
But this pattern doesn't seem to return any of ...
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Bind a specific search to a map in normal mode
Specifically, I'm looking to bind the search /\(<<<<\|====\|>>>>\)/ (i.e. "find the next git merge boundary"). Ideally to <C-/> or <A-/>, but that part I'...
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Search and yank in visual line mode with execute normal
I have this in a buffer:
aaa
bbb
ccc
ddd
eee
with the cursor on the first line. I do :execute 'normal! jV/ddd\<CR>y' which I expect should result in the middle three lines yanked. But what ...
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Find the specific line with character in specific position
Finding the line with a specific character before the last character. Suppose, I have the following string
1. addar_ctrl1,1,2,0,0,1
2. addar_ctrl2,3,2,0,1,0
3. addar_ctrl3,4,8,0,0,0
4. addar_ctrl4,2,6,...
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Enter insert mode after search?
So you're in Normal mode, then you press f followed by a character, then vim takes you to the next occurrence of that character. When you land on that character you are in Normal mode.
My question is ...
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Regex for any character that is not alphanumeric, whitespace, or a doublequote
I expect this to select all non-alphanumeric characters:
[^\w]
Instead it selects all non-w's.
This is the regex I would use in JavaScript, Python etc.:
[^\w\s"]
How can I write this so that it'...
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Replace a character multiple times but within pattern
I am creating a yml file out of some variables.
I have like 80 lines and they all have the pattern:
my-first-command-line-var: {{ my-first-command-line-var }},
my-second-cli-var: {{ {{ my-second-cli-...
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How to remove spaces between parenthesis?
I have a text that looks like this
" original
call minpac#add('morhetz / gruvbox')
" desired
call minpac#add('morhetz/gruvbox')
How can I limit vim pattern search within parentheses?
I ...
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How to search/replace without appending search history?
In a BufWritePre to remove trailing spaces, my function uses a search/replace for \s\+$ over the current buffer. So after saving any buffer, this weird entry \s\+$ shows up in my search history. Is ...
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How to repeat `f <char>` in opposite direction when using `,` as the map leader?
I have set mapleader="," in my ~/.vimrc.
How can I continue to repeat f <char> in the opposite direction, when using , as the map leader?
Is it possible to remap , in the context of f &...
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Is it possible to exchange search patterns in vim?
Is there a way, built-in or with a plugin, that I can swap any number of two different patterns on an arbitrary range using a regex?
Maybe something :s-style like :{range}exchange/{pattern-1}/{pattern-...
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open file with a particular regex search
Can one associate a regex query with a particular file, so that whenever that file is opened, the query (e.g., /text) is run, causing all instances of text to be highlighted? I considered using ...
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Trying to undestand why using \zs in regex is not working as I expect
Consider the following test String:
County,Age,Age_group,Gender,Jurisdiction,Travel_related,Origin,EDvisit,Hospitalized,Died,Case_,Contact,Case1,EventDate,ChartDate,ObjectId
If use the following ...
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Case-sensitive search with `smartcase` set
I have set smartcase in my init.vim so searching with /lowercase is case-insensitive, which is usually what I want. However, I sometimes want to do a case-sensitive search where my target is all ...
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Finding where one word is close to another word: parametrized command in vimrc
I asked this question, about how to find where one word is close to another word, and Quasimodo gave the very fine answer:
/\vaid(\W+\w+){,3}\W+country
Now I want to parametrize this command into ...
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Jump to selected word after a search in vim [duplicate]
I use / followed by word to be searched to search for a word in a document. However once I find the word pressing escape just takes me back to the cursor location which is at the beginning of the ...
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incsearch not working as expected
So I have the following example text:
##1##
many text
and lines
##z##
##1##
many text
and lines
##z##
##2##
more text
##z##
And after doing :set incsearch, and running :g/^##1##\n.*/+,/##z##/- (which ...
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Why does a range search “:[range]/pattern/action” not work the same way as “:[range]g/pattern/action”?
Can someone explain why range search :[range]/pattern/action does not work the same way as :[range]g/pattern/action?
Also :'a,'b/pattern/action gives a warning that the range is 'backward', even ...
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Set variable equal to search match subsection
Unnecessary Context:
I want to write a function that closes open HTML tags, because closetag.vim seems complicated, and I like to understand all the stuff I run in Vim.
My plan for this is to match ...
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Date change question: Find and replace with wildcards?
I have a file with a bunch of dates of the form a/b/c, where a,b, and c are numbers of varying character length. However, I'd like to change every instance to read c/a/b.
I'm wondering if there is a ...
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How can I find where one word is close to another word?
If I want to find occurrences of the word 'arc', I can type / arc , with spaces around the three letters, to find basic occurrences of the word (ignoring punctuation). But suppose I want to find where ...
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Can't search for strings within hidden files with fzf's Rg command in vim
I just installed fzf for my bash terminal and the fzf.vim plugin for vim. I've placed the following code at the bottom of my .bashrc script:
export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND='rg --files --hidden --no-ignore-...
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Show exact number of matches even for large (>99) numbers
When I search for something /search-term and it shows up more than 100 times in my file, vim shows me that I'm on match x/>99 instead of x/121 etc.
For smaller numbers it shows me the exact number ...
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Vim find/replace highlighting
I'm a long time Vim user but a few months back started dabbling in Emacs. One of the things I really liked about Emacs was when doing a find/replace s/you/me it would highlight the word I was ...
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How to not jump back on mismatch with incremental search
With incremental search (incsearch), we jump to matches and they are highlighted as they are found. But if we hit a character that makes the search not match anything, we’re thrown back to where we ...
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How can I repeat the cgn sequence?
Recently I learned the awesome command cgn to repeat a change to a word. I’ve seen several answers advising its use, like this:
What is the best way to re-factor a variable name in vim?
and this:
How ...
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Conditional search and replace using repeated macro or commands
I want to search for a keyword, and replace a word in the line that is not a search word. I thought macros may be a good way to do it, but I am open to any methods.
I have something like,
blah blah
...
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Passing a pattern as argument without extra escaping
so I want to pass a pattern to a command.
command! -nargs=1 -buffer Vim silent exec "vim! /" . <args> . "/ ./*" | copen | redraw!
But there is a problem. If I want to match /foo i would use ...
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Reverse n and N for ? and # searches (compared to / searches) [duplicate]
When I search with ? or #, I want n to move "forwards" through the buffer, and N to move backwards. This is opposite to current behaviour (where n moves in the search direction).
How can I set this ...
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Searching for multiple keywords listed in the buffer
Given two buffers, where
the first one has a list of keywords delimited by a new line;
the second buffer with text that contains a subset of keywords from the first buffer.
How do I search and ...
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global search and replace on all lines that don't begin with a backslash
I'm trying to globally enclose in {}'s all instances of +,-,= that aren't already so enclosed. But I don't want to do this for lines that are latex commands. Since my latex commands are all on ...
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How to insert text using substitute and regex?
Honestly I can't read regex for now.
I have quick-fix list and I have a hunch that this can be done with regex but I don't know how.
I want this:
@ViewChild(MatTable)
@ViewChild('text 1')
@...
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Autocomplete on command-line search pattern returns strange symbols of <09> and ^I
Using Neovim v0.4.3 on a just recently upgraded Linux Mint 19.3.
Problem Description:
After the upgrade, when typing / followed by first characters of any word below the cursor, in the buffer, and ...
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Is the pattern .\{-}\> equivalent to the move command e?
What is the appropriate way to make a pattern that matches up until the point where the move command e would have moved to?
Consider this text: texttext%0s: cookie after performing /%<CR>ve the ...
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How to enable search highlight when I use `normal! n` in a function?
I've set hlsearch.
When I type :normal! n, the target text is highlighted.
But when I put normal! n in a function(Search) and call that function(:call Search()), the highlight doesn't take effect? ...
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How to highlight search with / and ? but not * and # vim
Is there any way to have vim highlight the search with / and ? but not when putting cursor on a word and pressing * or #?
:set hlsearch and :set nohlsearch turn it on and off for both.
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Keep vim cursor position in document fixed when typing search expression
I recently upgraded vim for the first time in 5 years. Now, when I type in a search expression, the cursor in the buffer changes position with each key stroke to highlight a potential match. I want ...
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Reverse of `;` in find command
When I do something like:
f G
To find the next G on the line, I can press ; to find the next occurrence. However, once I've passed one, is there a way to find the previous occurrence? Likewise with ...
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get line of first occurence of pattern in buffer
I am trying to write a function which I bind to "n" and "N" to highlight the current search pattern. That part works.
I would like to detect when the cursor wraps to the first match in the buffer (...
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How to search the output of vim command line commands like `:ls`, `:browse oldfiles`
Back from emacs recently, in emacs I can list all the existing buffers in a emacs buffer, where I can do search, delete or jumping etc.
In Vim, if I type :browse oldfiles, a long list may be returned ...
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Restore “search hit BOTTOM, continuing at TOP” when search navigation wraps aound end of file
I've recently switched to Neovim, and some days in, I realized that there was no search hit BOTTOM, continuing at TOP message when jumping from the last to the first search result (or vice versa), ...
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Is there an instant way of editing matching inner tags?
In Vim, using the text object i>, you can edit an inner tag, and using the built-in matchit plugin, you can even use % to jump between matching opening and closing tags.
Let's say you want to ...
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I would like to find and count number of entries bigger than a certain number in front of a certain string
I would like to use vim to do the following operation in vim:
I would like to determine the number of entries with avg_deg greater then "'avg_deg': 5.50" from a simple .log file as well as the average ...
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Search and replace visual block only? [duplicate]
How do I search and replace in a visual block only?
'<,'>s/search/replace/ works on entire lines, not visual blocks only.
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Numpad forward slash to search without numpad?
In Vim I use the forward slash on my numpad a lot for searching. Thinking of getting a TKL keyboard I was wondering how that works without a numpad. I tried the forward slash on the regular keys, but ...
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Advance to next (multi)characters on a line
To advance to the next/previous character match on a line I can do:
f <char>
However, I find myself wanting to match against two characters on that line, for example, something like:
f ='
Is ...
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How to go to search results located in other windows?
I want to go to the search result in the right-window, identified after performing a /urllib search in the left window.
Pressing n\N doesn't proceed to search results in other windows. How can I ...
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How to reload vim buffer
I built a cpp environment with YCM, EasyGrep and some other plugins.
With YCM, I can jump to declaration/definition, with EasyGrep, I can grep a keyword easily.
But I found something weird:
Saying ...
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Search and copy the text between two markers in gvim
I want to copy strings that spans across multiple lines between two markers in a large file.
In the below example file, start marker is <ROW> and end marker is </ROW>.
<ROW>
&...
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How to research strightly a word in a loop?
I have text:
I want to select nest and not nestlé in this text. Only the word nest!
and a list :
myList = ["nest"]
function MyFunction()
myList = ["nest"]
for elem in MyList
if search("...
