To search forward in Vim for cake, I’d type /cake, but the cursor jumps to the first match when I press return. Is there a Vim command analogous to “find next”?
To search forward in Vim for cake , I’d type /cake , but the
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To search forward in Vim for cake, I’d type /cake, but the cursor jumps to the first match when I press return. Is there a Vim command analogous to “find next”?
It is n for next and N for previous.
And if you use reverse search with
?(for example,?cake) instead of/, it is the other way round.If it is installed on your system, you should try to run
vimtutorcommand from your terminal, which will start a tutorial of the basic Vim commands.Rob Wells advice about * and # is also very pertinent.