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Using / or ? enables to find a match for a word in vim. But how can I find an exact match?
For example, my text contains the following words: a aa aaa aaaa aa and I type /aa This will find all the strings containing the pattern aa, but what if I want to find exactly aa and not aaaa aaaa?
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CTRL-F is a vital keystroke to control vim - it provides the page-down behavior and without that I have to find the actual page-down key which takes my fingers off the home row.
Press y to replace the match or l to replace the match and quit. Press n to skip the match and q or Esc to quit substitution. The a option substitutes the match and all remaining occurrences of the match. To scroll the screen down, use CTRL+Y , and to scroll up, use CTRL+E .
You enclose the string you are looking for by \< and \> like in /\<aa\> to match exactly that string.
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