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 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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Autocomplete popup menu for search results
Autocomplete in insert mode (via <c-n>/<c-p>) is excellent, in particular the navigable popup box.
I would like the same navigable popup box when I search: so, I type /, then start to type,...
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Replacing both upper case and lowercase findings [duplicate]
I often find myself running the following commands in sequence when wanting to replace both the lower case and title case instances of a given word, while retaining its original case.
:'<,'>s/...
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How to point the cursor to result when search by 'let @/ = '?
To reproduce this problem:
Open a new vim window, input "abc", leave cursor at the end of line
set hlsearch
let @/ = "abc"
The cursor doesn't point to the beginning of "abc&...
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behavior of control characters has changed in ubuntu 20.04
Before upgrading to ubuntu 20.04, the line
g/;/s//CTRL V CTRL M/
would replace the ; with a new line.
Now, in ubuntu 20.04 this string translates to
:g/;/s//^[[27;5;109~
which obviously doesn't have ...
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Is it possible to detect a highlighted search match with synIDattr() or similar?
When I have hlsearch on and my cursor is somewhere in a highlighted search match, is it possible to detect the search highlight hl-Search with synIDattr() or a similar function?
As far as I can tell ...
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possible to search two form of hex string in one time?
Some text file contains lots of hex strings, a same string presents multiple times in two formats like:
00000000 aa bb cc 25 41 f3 d9 ed 58 5c ed a0 3c 61 60 ce ...%A...X..<a`.
and
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Search for a pattern, copy the line with the matching pattern, copy the next 2 lines, output the results into a new file
I have a file with data that goes like this.
Engine1
Temp:10
Humidity:23
Engine1
Temp:13
Humidity:21
Engine2
Temp:10
Humidity:23
This pattern repeats throughout the file.
I want to do the following ...
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Skip to next batch of search results (or find next non-match)?
So you search /needle, and end up trapped in a haystack of result lines. Is there a quick way to skip to the first non-matching line (and then the next batch of results)?
E.g. I'm viewing the results ...
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Searching a log file using vi or view
When I open a log file in vi or view and I need to search for a word, the first thing I do is to press G to get to the bottom. Then I'll start a search using a / followed by whatever word I'm looking ...
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Delete up everything until searched term, including searched term
If the cursor is at t in
the quick brown fox
and we type d/brown, we delete the quick . Is there a way to extend this such that the searched term is deleted too? (Such that only fox remains.)
