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Vi search starting from line n --- any trick for this ???

Hi all,

It does not seem to be possible to use vi to search from text from line n forward or backward or is there a not well known vi trick to do that?

What I am trying to do is for example I am on line 100 and I want to search from line 100 backward or forward for a specific text. Using / and ? seems to either start from the top and from the bottom and not from which line you are currently in.

Can anyone advise if what I am wanting to do is possible or not?

Thanks in advance.
 
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More(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						 More(3pm)

NAME
Tk::More - a 'more' or 'less' like text widget SYNOPSIS
use Tk::More; $more = $parent->More(...text widget options ...); $more->Load(FILENAME); DESCRIPTION
Tk::More is a readonly text widget with additional key bindings as found in UNI* command line tools "more" or "less". As in "more" an additional status/command line is added at the bottom. ADDITIONAL BINDINGS
Key-g or Home goto beginning of file Key-G or End goto end of file Key-f or Next forward screen Key-b or Prior backward screen Key-k or Up up one line Key-j or Down down one line Key-/ search forward Key-? search backward Key-n find next match Key-N find previous match Key-u up half screen Key-d down half screen Key-Return down one line Key-h invoke help window OPTIONS
Name: fixedFont Class: FixedFont Switch: -font Set the font of the viewer widget. This is by default a fixed font. Name: searchCase Class: SearchCase Switch: -searchcase Set if searching should be done case-insensitive. Defaults to true. Switch: -helpcommand Sets the command for the "h" (help) key. METHODS
Load($file, %args) Load $file into the widget. %args may be one of the following -encoding => $encoding Assume the encoding of the file to be $encoding. If none is given, then assume no encoding (which is equivalent to iso-8859-1). AddQuitBindings Convenience method to add the bindinds Key-q and Control-Key-q to close the Toplevel window containing this More widget. BUGS
Besides that most of more bindings are not implemented. This bugs me most (high to low priority): * better status line implementation * Cursor movement: up/down move displayed area regardless where insert cursor is * add History, Load, Search (also as popup menu) SEE ALSO
Tk::ROText, more(1), tkmore, less(1) AUTHOR
Achim Bohnet <ach@mpe.mpg.de> Currently maintained by Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de>. Copyright (c) 1997-1998 Achim Bohnet. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-03-04 More(3pm)