Find next in Vim

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To search forward in Vim for cake  I d type  cake  but the cursor jumps to the first match when I press return  Is there a Vim command analogous to  find next

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When I was beginning I needed to watch a demo  How to search in Vim  type   type search term e g   quot var quot  press enter for next instance press n  for previous N

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As discussed  there are several ways to search    pattern  pattern    and g   which I sometimes use in macros     and g     plus  navigating prev next with N and n   You can also edit recall your search history by pulling up the search prompt with   and then cycle with C-p C-n  Even more useful is q   which takes you to a window where you can navigate the search history   Also for consideration is the all-important  hlsearch   type  hls to enable   This makes it much easier to find multiple instances of your pattern  You might even want make your matches extra bright with something like   hi Search ctermfg yellow ctermbg red guifg       But then you might go crazy with constant yellow matches all over your screen  So you   ll often find yourself using  noh  This is so common that a mapping is in order   nmap  lt leader gt z  noh lt CR gt    I easily remember this one as z since I used to constantly type  zz lt CR gt   which is a fast-to-type uncommon occurrence  to clear my highlighting  But the  noh mapping is way better

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You may be looking for the n key

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The most useful shortcut in Vim  IMHO  is the   key   Put the cursor on a word and hit the   key and you will jump to the next instance of that word   The   key does the same  but it jumps to the previous instance of the word   It is truly a time saver

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Typing n will go to the next match

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If you press Ctrl   Enter after you press something like   wordforsearch   then you can find the word  wordforsearch  in the current line  Then press n for the next match  press N for previous match

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It is n for next and N for previous   And if you use reverse search with    for example   cake  instead of    it is the other way round   If it is installed on your system  you should try to run vimtutor command from your terminal  which will start a tutorial of the basic Vim commands   Rob Wells advice about   and   is also very pertinent

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