Vim : Lesson 1

Highlight search matches

To enable search match highlighting:

:set hlsearch or :hls

To disable search match highlighting:

:nohlsearch or :nohls or :set hohlsearch to completely turn it off during session

To search and replace some strings use following:

1. :%s/==.*/

• %s searches for the string in all lines, not only in the current line.
• / performs forward search. ? should perform a backward search.
• ==.* is the search pattern where any string with any number of characters preceded by “==” will be matched.
• / (notice there is a space char) specifies that match be replaced by " “(a space).

2. :%s/==.*//d

To resize the current windows size

• CTRL+W+- ; This will decrease the window size
• CTRL+SHIFT++ ; This will increase the window size