Method 1 : Quick search (exact string match, case sensitive)
Format: / + keyword or ? + keywords
/content #press enter to search top-to-bottom
?content#press enter to search bottom-to-top
Advantages: quickly locate the keyword
After pressing Enter, press n to search for the next occurrence of matching results, and press uppercase N to reverse search for the next occurrence of matching results.
Method 2 : Whole word search
Format: / + < + keywords + >
/<Iden>
After pressing Enter, press # to search forward, or * to search backward.
Method 3 : Search History
Format: / + up and down arrow keys
press enter after selection
Method 4 : Case Sensitive
By default, searches are case sensitive. Searching for "YES" will not match "yes".
To ignore case, enter :set ignorecase or :set ic on the Vim command line. You can also add a default option to ignore case in your ~/.vimrc file.
To change it back to case-sensitive, enter :set noignorecase or :set noic.
Another way to enforce case ignorance is to add \c after the search pattern.
For example, /Linux\c will ignore case sensitivity when searching. Adding an uppercase \C after the search pattern enforces case sensitivity.
> :set nu # display line numbers
