Tech-Recipes - Latest Comments in Search for text in vi or vim

Re: Search for text in vi or vim

gesty — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:44:28 -0000

sometimes it has issues with where your cursors is compared to where you are working in the text.

Re: Search for text in vi or vim

Arturo — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:51:30 -0000

nevermind. maybe i need to restart terminal or something because yank and put are not adhering to any type of logic whatsoever.

Re: Search for text in vi or vim

Arturo — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:48:18 -0000

dear god, thank you anonymous. 'yank' is erratic as f*ck when the search words are highlighted.

Re: Search for text in vi or vim

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:30:19 -0000

:nohl

Re: Search for text in vi or vim

Quinn McHenry — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:51:32 -0000

I bet there is a slick way to do that, but I honestly don't know that way. My technique is to search for something else that doesn't exist in the file..

/jkdsjklsd

will do the trick. If someone else knows the guru way, please let us know! I'd love to know how, too.

Re: Search for text in vi or vim

Boris — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:28:33 -0000

And how do I unmark the text? It's always highlighted..