“Vim beginners may be puzzled when it comes to doing search and
replace operations in Vim. The syntax can be a bit arcane, but
after you’ve practiced, it becomes second nature. Let’s take a look
at how easy it can be.“Let’s start by looking at searches and doing search and replace
operations within Vim. You can do a search in normal mode by using
/searchstring. This will search forward
through the file forsearchstring. Likewise,
running?searchstringwill search backwards
through the file…”
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