Re: Reverse search and replace

On 2014-04-16 16:10, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Am 2014-04-16 15:50, schrieb Ven Tadipatri:
> > In Vim, you can do a search and replace with :%s, with a confirm
> > option. But if the text you want to replace is the last line in
> > the current window, then you can't really see any context for it.
> > Is there a way to do a reverse search and replace? Or when a
> > match is found, can you have vim show a few lines below it?
>
> You can use Ctrl-E and CTRL-Y to scroll the window.

Or, you can set 'scrolloff' to some super-high number:

:set scrolloff=999

which will keep the cursor centered on the screen. Seems to keep it
centered when doing :s commands.

-tim



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