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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Search for string in vi Post 22290 by peter.herlihy on Thursday 30th of May 2002 06:20:46 PM
Old 05-30-2002
Also.... after typing /mysting to locate mystring... this will take you to the NEXT occurance of mystring from the point of cursor.

If there are multiple instances you can just press / followed by enter again and it will repeat the last search. Keep pressing / enter - to go through the file looking for each instance of mystring. This will keep going and may "Wrap around buffer" which means the end of the file was reached and you're back at the top.

To get out of search simply do your next vi command. Usefully too.... the last search remains in place so you can find an instance..edit it or whatever...then simply press / enter again and the search will be done again.
 

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www::search::altavista::news

WWW::Search::AltaVista::News(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			 WWW::Search::AltaVista::News(3pm)

NAME

       WWW::Search::AltaVista::News - class for Alta Vista news searching

SYNOPSIS

	   require WWW::Search;
	   $search = new WWW::Search('AltaVista::News');

DESCRIPTION

       This class implements the AltaVista news search (specializing AltaVista and WWW::Search).  It handles making and interpreting AltaVista
       news searches http://www.altavista.com.

       Details of AltaVista can be found at WWW::Search::AltaVista.

       This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects.

METHODS

   native_setup_search (private)
       This method does the heavy-lifting after native_query() is called.

   parse_tree
       This method parses the HTML of the search results.

AUTHOR

       "WWW::Search" is written by John Heidemann, <johnh@isi.edu>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1996 University of Southern California.  All rights reserved.

       Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are duplicated
       in all such forms and that any documentation, advertising materials, and other materials related to such distribution and use acknowledge
       that the software was developed by the University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute.  The name of the University may
       not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

       THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
       MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

perl v5.12.4							    2011-11-02					 WWW::Search::AltaVista::News(3pm)
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