Vim/Neovim

Search Commands

Find and replace text in Vim. Learn search patterns, substitution commands, and regex for powerful text manipulation.

6 commands

Pro Tips

Use '*' to search for the word under cursor, '#' to search backwards.

Use ':%s/old/new/gc' for global replace with confirmation on each match.

Use '\<word\>' for whole word matching in search patterns.

Without 'g' flag, :s only replaces the first match on each line.

$ /pattern

Search forward for pattern.

$ ?pattern

Search backward for pattern.

$ n / N

Go to next/previous match.

$ :%s/old/new/g

Replace all occurrences in file.

$ :%s/old/new/gc

Replace with confirmation.

$ :noh

Remove search highlighting.