Re: Searching across a range of lines

On 2023-01-13 16:41, Salman Halim wrote:
> For example, I want to find a match for 'cat', but only in lines 50 to
> 100. If my cursor is before line 50 when I start, I can prefix my
> expression with \%>49 and pass 100 as the stopline, but that doesn't
> work if my cursor is AFTER line 50 as it starts the match at the cursor
> location.
> I don't want to first move my cursor.

While possibly not quite what you're looking for, if I want such, I use

:50,100g/cat

or, if I want to know which line-numberss:

:50,100g/cat/#


-tim





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