> is it possible to restrict the search to a specific number of columns
> and/or rows ?

You'll want to read up at

   :help /\%l
   :help /\%v
   :help /\%c

(well, you can just start at the %l version and continue reading 
since they're serial).  So you can do something like

   /foo\%>20l\%<30l\%>5c\<%45c

to search for "foo" within the window (5,20)-(45,30) in your file 
(well, ignore any fenceposting errors I might have made there...)

The %v and %c variants are the same (to determine the column) 
except the %v version takes tab-expansion into consideration, 
while the %c version takes literal character-counts into 
consideration (both have their uses).

-tim





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