Questions tagged [search]
Searching for text with / or search(). For find/replace operations, use tag [substitute] instead.
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Case insensitive conservative substitution
Is there a built-in way in Vim to search for a pattern in a case-insensitive way, and substituting the occurrence conserving its case? (Something like an s/abcd/efgh that matches AbCd and replaces it ...
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Search backward for first line not matching a pattern?
Is there a way search backward from the cursor for a line that doesn't contain a pattern?
For example, many of my lines match the regular expression ^ adding: \i\+. I want to find the first line ...
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How to start search `/` from a mapping?
I'm trying to do the following mapping in my vimrc:
nnoremap <silent> / :call <SID>FooFunction()<CR><BAR>norm! /
But when I press /, instead of running the function and then ...
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Autocomplete incremental search behaviour
Consider the following scenario
Content of the buffer:
I saw the water in a thermal bath.
Commands issued:
:set incsearch
/th^R^W^R^W^R^W^R^W
Result
thewaterIII
Question
What exactly is the ...
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How to search and replace more than character and a string in vim
I know it should be easy, but somehow I don’t get it right.
I've got a text with artist_id, album_id,... and want to replace them with just id.
How do I do that?
I tried :%s/[a-z]+_id/id/gc, but ...
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How to search & replace the word under cursor without changing position?
This question is related to Do a forward slash search but don't have vim immediately jump to the string? but is not a dup.
I recently updated my Linux box (clicked on the "install updates" button ...
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Grabbing values between quotation marks
I want to create a regex that matches strings within single or double quotes in vim and that considers the fact that some strings might have escaped single quotes or double quotes.
So far, I've found ...
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How to add a certain word before the names of methods in Javascript?
I am working with react. First I had a component with state I created methods and all that. Now I want to convert it into stateless component. I have add the word function before each method name.
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How to execute with call and <C-R>/ matching?
I want to count the searching pattern and here is my code:
execute '%s/' <C-R>/ '/\=' . Count(submatch(0)) . '/gn'
Here is my Count function:
function! Count(match)
if has_key(b:types, a:...
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What's the difference between `/x` and `:/x`
Assume buffer content:
aa bb
yy xx
aa bb
What's the different between /xx and :/xx?
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search highlighting only in the current buffer
I know that I can run a search in vim using /. I prefer having search highlighting turned on, but if I have a two splits with different files open, and I search for a term in one, they get highlighted ...
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Can I use feedkeys() inside of a keyloop implemented by getchar()
I implemented a fuzzy filter, which
accept a list argument,
open a window with a scratch buffer whose content set to the list, then
waiting for use input and do filtering.
Here is why I ask this ...
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How to replace a pair of brackets
I have a file, containing some lines like this: aaa bbb (ccc) ddd.
Now I want to replace the pair of brackets by a pair of square brackets to make this line become aaa bbb [ccc] ddd.
I think that \...
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How to break lines into a certain amount of characters?
I have a long text file (300 lines), and I would like to format it so each line is not longer than 50 characters. For example, we have:
I have a really long text, I have a really long text, I have a ...
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Search for a word and if occurs, delete it and move to the end of line
I need to search for a certain word, and if it occurs, move it to the end of the line where it occured. For instance, search for "bugs".
Welcome! Meta Stack Exchange is intended for bugs, features, ...
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Search for lines that do not have certain characters in a row
I have a news article which I need to edit up a bit. Basically, I need to search for all lines that do not contain characters t and h 2 or more times in a row and replace 4 letter words with character ...
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search for pattern and insert text that precedes the pattern from pattern1 to pattern2 exclusive
basically I have a bunch of lines of code that all match the format .\module.variable (),
.\module.variable2 (),
I want to take everything between the backslash and the space, before the parentheses ...
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vim incremental command history search
In bash you can easily search the current history entries by hitting <C-r> or <C-s>. This search feature is incremental, and once you hit return, you get a bash prompt auto-filled with the ...
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How do I remap result navigation buttons after a search?
I search with /, press enter, and go a few results down using n.
I realize that I have gone a few more results down than I meant to and want to go back a few.
I press m because that is next to n just ...
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Don't jump on search and replace
How do I get my cursor to not move to the last thing it replaced after a search and replace. No <C-o> or extra key presses. Is there some autocmd magic I can setup to listen on any substitute ...
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Jump back to the position I started a search
I have a small question: let's suppose I'm at the beginning of line 10 and I search a term with the command /term_to_search and then I press <Enter> to start navigating search results with n or ...
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Add a line after 1 line after match in Ex mode
I need to search for a string in a file, then I need to some text after one line following the first match. I need to perform this for a number of files in a script.
I am trying to use vim ex mode ...
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Are the contents of highlighted content saved to a register [closed]
Let me briefly explain what I am trying to do. I work on an air gap network. Anything not native to Red hat, or that I do not write is out of the question. The most popular two IDE's are VIM/GVIM ...
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What alternative to capture groups should I use in VimScript?
I understand that Vim does not support regex capture groups. The problem I am trying to solve is being able to easily capture parts of lines. For example, given the following line of python source ...
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Search for line and paste as column until next match
I'm wondering if this is possible, more for curiosity's sake, but also it might be useful to know.
I have several ascii data tables and I want to combine them all into a single file. So I combined ...
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Find location of matched pattern
I am using matchadd() to match some text in a line. Using Vim script, how can I jump to the matched text? Or, instead, how can I get the column number of the start of the match?
Motivation: I have ...
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How to replace the first matching for each line with regular expression
Saying that I have such a file as below:
<random_string>hello<random_string>
random_string<random_string>hello<random_string>
I want to remove the first square bracket and ...
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search one word containing # with *
I would like to search the word under my prompt on vim. For this, i tried to press touch *.
But, if the word i want to search is #foo, as an exemple, vim only searches word foo (without hashtag), so ...
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How to make vim spell error search the current line only?
This vim binding will make <C-l> correct the previous spelling mistake:
inoremap <C-l> <c-g>u<Esc>[s1z=`]a<c-g>u
How do I modify it to make it correct the previous ...
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Difference between searching and substituting pattern matching
I have a string in a JSON file which is repeated with different values for chance. I want to replace all of these blocks by moving the miss chance out of the attack array and into a separate property.
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How to search in beginning of line and add something at end of that line
I want to search lines beginning with certain string in Vim, and then add something at the end of file. I have tried the following but it removed everything instead of appending
:%s/^12138/*...
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Is it possible to call searchpair or searchpairpos on string instead of current buffer?
searchpair or searchpairpos works only on current buffer.
Are there similar functions work on string instead of buffer?
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Can you match unicode blocks by name in vim?
\p{Cyrillic}
Works in my normal regular expressions. When trying to match in Vim or gvim however, I can not seem to get it to work.
I tried something like this:
\p\{Cyrillic}
Is it not supported, ...
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Are there any built-in functions to search sorted list?
Are there any built-in functions to search sorted list? Such as binary_search, lower_bound, upper_bound, etc.
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How to search for any repeating character, X number of times
Let's say a buffer has a certain characters I know will be repeated seven (7) times. How can I search for any character repeated seven times?
I know I can search for .., but those to characters won'...
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creating a “:KeepCursor” command
I'd like to make a command that works like this: :KeepCursor {cmd} will the given execute ex command string, then restore the cursor's position. A primary example is:
:KeepCursor normal! *
which ...
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How to replace a string only if the line starts with another string
I need to find ONLY the lines that start with the string G1 Z, and then replace any occurrence on that same line of F1800 with a new value of F500. For example:
G1 Z9.800 F1800.000 ; move to next ...
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Search for line, move to end of search string, then search+replace
(EDIT: In the original question, I had accidentally used \w instead of \<. Comments and answers with \w should be interpreted as using \< as well.)
In my LaTeX source files, section headings ...
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Read-only mode in Vim while using cscope?
I am traversing through a C code in Vim using cscope. Sometimes while traversing, some key gets pressed or mouse gets right-clicked and the Vim enters in insert mode, and it creates a mess to undo the ...
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Incremental search: is it possible to push 'Esc` without scrolling back?
My problem on this gif:
I am in one place, searching for meta, I do not want to loose my current search highlighting (yes I know that I can restore it later in / menu). I found what I need - without ...
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How do I keep the spacevim search results window open after opening a file?
How can I keep the search results location list window open after opening a file in a new buffer?
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how to add a word two lines above certain word in multiples places
my text look like this in several places of the file:
FDE
PW91k
XCNADD PBE
::FULLGRID
END
END
eor
and I want to introduce a word two lines above "eor" word throughout. I have tried
:,.-2/eor/...
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Search only within a relevant context?
When running through a log file, I will catch a log that's bad, and I want to search around that line for other lines that will match search parameters.
Frequently the log files are very long, and ...
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Exclude folder when searching files in working directory
I'm working in a react project and opened vim from the root folder. When I'm using
:vimgrep /pattern/ **
I just can search everywhere, but I want to search everywhere except the 'node_modules' ...
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How do I use 'cgn' for word under cursor?
I really like and often use the cgn command for replacing something I was currently searching for, but it sort of lacks a (imho) rather intuitive feature: replace the word (or whatever) under the ...
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Edit colorscheme to tell me which search result my cursor is currently on
When I search for a word in my files, many of them come up, and it's tough to tell which one my cursor is currently over.
See image:
Is there a way to edit the background color for the search I'm ...
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function to search for a pattern
I just recently found a very nice command to search for a pattern in a document, and display all hits:
:g/pattern/z#.1
Since the command is a bit cumbersome to type, I would like to make a shortcut, ...
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scroll while writing a substitution
how can I scroll or move around in the code while writing a search or command ?
I want to write a substitution :s/xxx/yyy but I forgot what yyy should be and I need to scroll a little bit to find it, ...
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How to get the same message and error behavior as normal `n` when calling `normal n` in function
I wrote a vimscript function that prevents the cursor from changing its location on the screen when I press n:
function! my_n()
let l:start=line("w0")
let end = line("w$")
let cursor = ...
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Find duplicate entries in two different lists
I have two different lists of words and I want to make sure that they have no mutual duplicates. In other words, none of the words in list A can be in list B and vice versa. They must be mutually ...
