Searching word in vim?

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kal picture kal · Jan 19, 2009 · Viewed 177.4k times · Source

I can search word in vim with /word. How can I search only for word, excluding searches for word1 and word2?

Answer

Nathan Fellman picture Nathan Fellman · Jan 19, 2009

like this:

/\<word\>

\< means beginning of a word, and \> means the end of a word,

Adding @Roe's comment:
VIM provides a shortcut for this. If you already have word on screen and you want to find other instances of it, you can put the cursor on the word and press '*' to search forward in the file or '#' to search backwards.

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