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I'm using putty on a Linux machine. My usual method for searching in vi is entering the slash /, then my search string, enter, then go through all the matches by n or shift + n.
I was wondering if vi had a feature like Eclipse's Incremental Search (ctrl + j), wherein as I type, it jumps to the next logical match. I think one of my office mates used to do it but I'm not sure.
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Press Esc to cancel or press Enter to perform the search. Then press n to search forwards for the next occurrence, or N to search backwards. Type ggn to jump to the first match, or GN to jump to the last.
incsearch. vim is a Vim plugin which improve incremental searching. It provides functionality to highlight all matches while searching, to move cursor to next/previous match while searching and so on.
If you're using vim (and who isn't nowadays), you can enable incremental search with:
:set incsearch Then just use the regular search command / and it will move the highlight as you add characters to the search string.
I also like hlsearch as well since it highlights all found items (once the search command is done) for easy viewing.
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