Re: ignore new line in search

On 15/01/2012 06:41 a.m., Pau wrote:
> I very frequently have to look for a couple of words in a huge
> document to find the place where I have to resume work or do
> modifications. Unfortunately, the search function stops in a new line,
> so that if I look for "a very interesting place which was far away"
> vim will not find it if there is a new line, i.e. something like this
>
> a very
> interesting place
> which was far away
>
> How can I tell vim to ignore new lines in the search function?
>
> thanks,
>
> Pau

See
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_across_multiple_lines

In your case you only need to do:
:S a very interesting place which was far away

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Cesar

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