Questions tagged [search]
For questions about searching for text with / or search(). For find/replace operations, use tag [substitute] instead.
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How do I search the contents of registers?
I have a bad habit of deleting some text a, heading off to another section of the document to paste it, and finding something else along the way that I need to delete. When I get to my final ...
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Excluding a tag in search is hiding the watched tag panel - Can I always show it [migrated]
I'm trying to exclude neovim questions from vi.stackexchange.com
If I do a search and save that URL the watched tags panel disappears. Is there any way to always show watched tags when executing a ...
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How to find/highlight a word in the current line only
As title. The current problem is that my window is scrolled to the first/next(?) global occurrence. But I just want it to move my cursor to the local one, i.e. the current line, if any.
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how to find the all the lines where they are the same like A(A)(A), B(B)(B), Z(Z)(Z)?
For example:
sfdAAAzsd
sdfBBBadf
sd1ZZZsdf
Hightlighted:
sfd"AAA"zsd
sdf"BBB"adf
sd1"ZZZ"sdf
all letters will be searched only
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"non-greedy" [<any chars>](word) regexp problem
consider this sentence (a line in a text file):
mi chiamo [Giorgio Robino](person) ed abito in [corso Magenta 35/4 a Genova](address)
I want to search (select/extract) the pattern <any chars> ...
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How to select a regexp group in vim?
I want to select/visualize a regexp GROUP in a vim regexp expression in vim.
By example I would like to highlight (search) a span of characters inside square brackets, having this line:
bla bla bla [...
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Can't read my highlighted searches
In this display, what does the "xxx" mean?
:hi Search
Search xxx term=reverse ctermbg=11 guibg=Yellow
On my display (cygwin/xterm), Search displays as black on black.
If I do this, ...
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How to use advanced Regex features without too many syntax cluster
I have a bunch of typescript classes in a single file, each of them has an _update function. I want to go to _update function of a class Player. How would I do that?
class Player {
_update() {}
}
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Trim tabs at the end of a search query
When searching in vim and mostly in netrw I add a tab before hitting enter; muscle memory from other places.
/file^I
How do I make it so that a tab at the end of a search query is trimmed ...
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VIM search and replace regex - how to keep the search string intact and adding to it?
I'd like to learn how to search and replace in VIM - keeping the search string intact and adding to it.
Take this as a simple example. See image below. I copied a simple python script written for ...
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How can I display a minimap with search results?
I have a big sheet of data that I constantly input more into. It gets to a point that is hard to use, especially when I do a search of a certain topic.
I am having tough time managing the data of the ...
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Find and replace with incrementing numbers
I have several lines that look like the following:
"Timestamp": 200,
"Timestamp": 1200,
"Timestamp": 3100,
I want to replace all the numbers, starting at 10 and ...
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Advance to next non-blank line only if current line is not blank
I want to tell a command or mapping to advance to the next non-blank line before executing - but to do this only if the current line is not blank.
Ultimately, I intend to apply this to a command to ...
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Capitalizing a backreference in a search (NOT a substitute)
I am looking for a way to match any line in a csv file that contains an identifier (e.g. OfficeLocation) and then, later on, the same identifier in all caps. A line to be matched might look like:
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Delete a line if it contains N occurrences
Is there a way to do a search and replace where it searches for if a line contains 4 pipes ( | ) anywhere in the line it will delete it?
I'm working with a big csv file and some lines have 4 pipes and ...
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Prevent jumping when pattern matching
Is there a way to prevent cursor to search forward when using the * or /?
I just want to highlight the word I am on & others, but not move to forward nor backward.
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Search and Replace on odd/even numbered lines using g
I was looking for ways to search and replace on even/odd numbered lines in vim and I came across some solution on google groups https://groups.google.com/g/comp.editors/c/xk9DMoszgq4.
To search and ...
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Advance from currrent cursor position to next line not containing one of several expressions
In vim, is there a way to advance from the current line or cursor position to the next line that doesn't contain one of several regular expressions? For example, I can use /RegExp/<CR> or :g/...
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List/navigate specific syntax elements in a file?
I would like to jump through specific syntax elements in a file. For example, quickly navigate to the next string element. In a .vim file strings are defined as vimString syntax elements. For ...
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Jump to pattern without overriding search
I'm trying to implement a mapping for making the vim cursor jump to a pre-defined search pattern without overriding the current search, but it is falling short in multiple ways:
function! ...
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Why is asterisk not highlighting repeated occurences of a character?
I am using the latest version of Gvim on Windows 10.
When I type / and some expression, for example /a, I see all matches in the document highlighted.
The documentation says that the asterisk symbol * ...
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Vim search quantifier "\?" failing on backward search
I have the text in the file tmp.txt below with fileformat=unix. In normal mode, if I issue the backward search command ?da\?ta<CR>, the many occurrences of data are not found. If I then search ...
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argdo vs bufdo for project-wide search and replace in specific folders
I have the following structure:
myproject
----src
file1.cpp, ..., file10.cpp
----include
incl1.h, ..., incl10.h
----data
data1.txt, ..., data10.txt
I would like to ...
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Search from vim function
I am trying to use a vim function to search whether :noh has been set or not
This is similar to question found here except that question does not take :noh into account
One way to search from a ...
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Increment numbers found in search results, using search result number as an iterator
Suppose I have a file and littered throughout are a bunch of placeholder strings for images, they all have img1.gif at present.
Is there a way to search for that string and increment the number each ...
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Make 'cabbrev' work from command-line but not search prompt?
I am using NeoVim, and I automatically define an abbreviation for the string W every time the commandline mode starts.
However, it seems that commandline mode includes the search modes as well.
I do ...
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How to quickly search for today's date in a file?
Question
How does one effectively find today's date in a file?
The format of the date is given by GNU's date(1)'s command as:
$ date '+%a %d-%m-%Y'
Mon 16-08-2021
What I already tried
This is how I ...
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Have to hit "Enter" after searching or I lose the pattern
If I am searching for a word inside a file,
if I do not hit ENTER after the search pattern,
my vi loses the current match and jumps back to where it was.
I have
set hlsearch
set incsearch
in .vimrc.
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How do I delete until (and including) the 2nd occurrence of some character?
Here's an example:
console.log("basename of"path.basename(__filename))
console.log(path.dirname(__filename))
With my cursor on path in the first line, I've tried:
dt2)
but then my cursor ...
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is it possible to get incremental and hl search when using "q/" search window mode
I've been using the "q/" mode for all my searches recently because it allows quick and ease of access to previous searches, but it lacks the ability to perform incremental searches and ...
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Something like :g/re/p - but only print the matches instead of whole lines?
Say we have the following code:
Lorem ipsum.
<input name="test1">
<input name="test2"> Lorem ipsum some long text possibly so long you lose your overview.
<input ...
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Search throws E363: pattern uses more memory than 'maxmempattern'
I ran a /.*stem\&.*sun in vim terminal.
It prompted this error without throwing me any search result.
E363: pattern uses more memory than 'maxmempattern'
E385: ...
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search and replace in whole directory recursively
I have many entities in my java project like this:
public class MyCar {
// The brand of the car
private String brand;
// The time owner bought it
private Date obtainTime;
// The price in dollar
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Matching any Unicode whitespace
I'd like to match in Vim any whitespace character, not only normal space (U+0020) and tab (U+0009) with \s, and the other ASCII ones like form feed (U+000C) with [[:space:]], but any Unicode ...
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movement similar to "f" but you can specify more than one character as search criteria
Say we got this sentence:
pafpaf apfa fpa i apa panda pafas af
I would like to quickly move the cursor from the start of the line to the beginning of the word panda. I could do 6fp, but what takes ...
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Select buffer from list of buffers filtered by a partial name match?
Let's say I entered a folder with many files and I opened them with vim *. I know that if I want to list all the files inside the buffer I can use the command :ls, and then I can navigate those files ...
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Iterate through functions calls in various files
I can jump to a function definition thanks to :tjump.
Or I can search for a function call in a file with / but is there a way
to iterate through function calls across various files ?
If the solution ...
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Map a key in "search mode" [duplicate]
"Search mode" is not a true mode, but is it possible to create mappings that only apply while typing a search after / or ??
I am wondering how one would go about mapping <C-f> to start ...
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How to match all C code comments in a file?
I want to match (search) all C code comments in a file in e.g.
enum {
foo,
/* Foo is so cool, why can't we all be more like foo? */
bar,
/* but bar is mysterious and ...
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Use vi to replace everything between two known strings on multiple lines
I need to replace the first number that comes after AAA, with 0.05
So this:
AAA,1.25,2020-08-30
BB,0.1,2020-08-30
CCC,1.6,2020-08-30
DDDD,1.5,2020-08-31
EE,1.75,2020-08-31
FFF,0.05,2020-08-31
AAA,0.25,...
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Search multiple buffers without replacing
Opening all 49 files in my working folder in separate buffers, I wanted to see if there were any em dashes.
I typed :bufdo /— and vim immediately went to work, processing a page of buffers at a time. ...
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Delete word highlighted by search
I have hlsearch activated. Sometimes I search for terms I want to correct or delete via / and then selecting for the individual instance via n. Is there a command to delete the current word on which ...
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how to make vim looks for and display only files with .c or .h extension when displaying results of :find command
How can I make vim :find only files with .c or .h extensions?
For example, I am interested in finding .c files starting with tsv so I would run :find tsv*. This gives too many results; how do I make ...
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How can I search only actual differences in vimdiff?
Basically I need to search only in areas marked red, not pink (in the default color scheme).
All I can find is how to search the unfolded areas. This is not very useful to me. I have long lines which ...
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How to fuzzy search a git repository for content that once existed?
I love fzf.vim for file content searching within vim. But how could I use that to search for content that was once in a git repository's files?
This stackoverflow question has basically two ...
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What does the 'z' flag for search() do?
I was looking at the documentation for search() (:help search()). I noticed that there is a "z" flag:
'z' start searching at the cursor column instead of zero
When the 'z' flag is not ...
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Multi-line python comment search and replace
I have a python code with several multi-line comments like this:
def hello:
''' some comment
some more text
some mooore text
'''
def ciaoo:
''' some comment
some ...
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Backward search in current line with search() and z option
I am trying to write a couple of simple functions to find the next and previous links in Vimwiki and move to them. Links in Vimwiki are indicated with the syntax [[link to something]]. Since I only ...
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Multiline search and replace with quickfix list and :cdo
I'm working on applying doctrine/coding-standard on doctrine/orm, and I would like to work smarter.
I would like to search occurences of
/**
* @Id
* @Column(type="integer")
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Determine if there is a matching character on the current line past the cursor
I am trying to make a mapping that performs what f would normally do if there is a character match on the line, and to do something else if no such character exists. For example,
suppose if I had the ...
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