I want to search a word from my current cursor position in vim to upward in file.
How to achieve this?
Also how to do same for downward in file.
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The `:set hlsearch` and `:set incsearch` commands might be of interest to you. – evilsoup Sep 03 '13 at 15:22
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To search in reverse from your cursor for a word, just use ?. So to find the word "fred" you would issue ?fred.
For forward searching you use /, using "fred" as an example again you would issue /fred.
If you want to continue searching for the same term, in the same direction you can use the n command. (Or you can issue ? or / without arguments).
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Since OP searches for a word from its current cursor position which I understand as word below cursor, he can also use the star * operator to search downward. There is also an equivalent for going upward but I do not rember it and it is exactly what I am looking for. – Dimitri Lesnoff Jun 29 '23 at 10:24
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`*` (forward) and `#` (backwards) search for the word under the cursor. No need to type the word with `?` – Dimitri Lesnoff Jun 29 '23 at 10:34
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Typing ?search text in command mode searches backward from point while /search text searches forward.
Typing n goes to the next instance of the search text in the direction you were last searching and typing N looks in the opposite direction of your last search.
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