VI: how to search with two keywords

Niceman2005 · 06-17-2008, 09:35 PM

Dear friends,

How do i do a search with Vi for a criteria of two keywords?
I know if we need to search a keyword (say apple), we can type /apple, if we wish to search a sentence with both apple and orange, how do we execute?

thanks for helping!

bigrigdriver · 06-17-2008, 10:18 PM

Start vim. Enter ":help search". Scroll down to the page until you find this:

Quote:

Example for using some flags: >
:echo search('\<if\|\(else\)\|\(endif\)', 'ncpe')

That's the section that tells how to specify more that one search word.

Niceman2005 · 06-18-2008, 08:17 PM

thanks friend!