(Yes, vim is not bash but I didn’t feel like making an entirely new setup just for vim.)

Search

Source: https://linuxize.com/post/vim-search

Basic search

• /foo will search for the next word that contains "foo"
• ?foo will search for the previous word that contains "foo"
• /\<foo will search for the next word that starts with "foo"
• Similarily /foo\> will search for the next word that ends with "foo"
• And you can combine it into /\<foo\> to search for the exact word "foo"
• Use n to go to the next result, and N to go to the previous result.

Search for the current word

You can also search for the “current word” (meaning the word the cursor is currently “on”) by pressing:

• * to search forward
• # to search backwards
• Use * and # repeatedly to search for the next or previous occurrence of said word

Search history

• Type / or ? and use the up and down arrows to see the previous search history

Case sensitivity

By default searches are case sensitive.

You can change the case sensitivity behaviour from either the vim command line or the ~/.vimrc like so:

• :set ignorecase/ic to… ignore the casing
• set: noignorecase/noic to make it case sensitive again

Change line endings to unix

If you manage to download a file with windows line endings (^M errors) do the following:

1. Open the file in vim
2. Execute the command :set ff=unix
3. Save and quit (:wq)