googler wrote: > Suppose I am editing/viewing a file and searching for different > regular expressions in the file, for example, issuing commands "/ > abcd", "/efgh", "/ijkl" and "/mnop". Since my last search was for > "mnop", that's what I have highlighted currently. Now if I want to go > back to the previous search or the one (or two) before that, what is > the easiest way to do that? I do not want to type the whole search > string again. Is there a shortcut? If not, does there exist any script > that I can use to get this functionality?
After pressing "/" you should be able to use up/down (or control+P or control+N) to navigate the search history. You can also use q/ to pull up the command-history window for the search. This allows you to modify the query as if it was a vim buffer itself. You can read more at :help c_<up> :help cmdline-history :help q/ It stores 'history' number of previous items (defaults to 20 items), and assumes that your version of vim was built with +cmdline_hist (check the output of ":ver" to verify) -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
