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Vim Highlight Search Items

Posted on June 18, 2020 by admin

Vim highlight search, when enabled, will highlight all the positive results with yellow. This can make it easy to see where all the results are on a page.

To turn on

:set hlsearch

To turn off

:nohlsearch

https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Highlight_all_search_pattern_matches

VIM delete all lines not matching pattern

Posted on May 4, 2020 by admin

In Vi you can use the following command to search for a pattern and delete all those lines

:%g/pattern-to-search-for/d

To inverse the operation and delete all lines not matching the pattern, change g to v

:%v/pattern-to-search-for/d