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I usually use following way to search particularly words in open files in vim

:/word-name

It works but if there are several occurances of a word then I'll have to type of every single time to go to the next matching word. Is there a way to search the open file for words in vim and I keep pressing enter which will take me to next matching word rather keep typing it?

Om3ga
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You could just type 'n' and the next hit is highlighted. See "Find next" in vim.

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triplem
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  1. Search for the word by pressing '/' and typing the desired word
  2. Then to get the next occurrence of the word, press 'n'

Extra Tips:

To get to the previous occurence of the word, press 'N'

Also, you can go to the next occurence of the word that your cursor is on by using '*'

Adam Yaziji
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