You can use regular expressions to search. In your case, you replace space character to match new line too. The "\_." modifier match "any single character or end-of-line" So, your search will look: /a\_.very\_.interesting\_.place\_.which\_.was\_.far\_.away
New line can be anywhere (actually, any character can be between words) the expression will find it ! See :help pattern ( If you don't like typing a lot, you can make a :cmap <space> \_. command, and make the search, so when you press space, \_. will substitute it :) and when you finished, you make :cunmap(press CTRL-V and space here to get a space instead of \_. this time)<space> and voila, the space will behave like space again ! :) ) Walkman On 2012.01.15., at 12:41, Pau wrote: > Hi, > > I very frequently have to look for a couple of words in a huge > document to find the place where I have to resume work or do > modifications. Unfortunately, the search function stops in a new line, > so that if I look for "a very interesting place which was far away" > vim will not find it if there is a new line, i.e. something like this > > a very > interesting place > which was far away > > How can I tell vim to ignore new lines in the search function? > > thanks, > > Pau > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
