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Re: Perform case insensitive searches in vi or vim

Johnny — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:33:43 -0000

Thanks for correcting the previous answer

Amit Verma — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:14:30 -0000

Great help indeed (In Comment section as well).
Thank you all, fellows..

Guest — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:02:30 -0000

It looks as if backslashes are being eaten by the comment engine.

That is:
[slash]expression[backslash]c
i.e., add a backslash c anywhere in your search expression. Usually people add it at the end for readability.

Mini — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:30:29 -0000

Great ! Just can't figure out how come I've never looked for this before !!

Aaron — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:15:09 -0000

Likewise, I've just figured :set ignorecase can be abbreviated as

:set ic

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:07:56 -0000

This is a wonderfull tip. Just found out that set noigorecase can also be abbreviated as set noic.

Drakonen — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:57:13 -0000

or, you can use
/expressionc