Searching can be an efficient way to navigate the current buffer.
The first search commands we learn are usually /
and ?
. These are seriously cool, especially with the incsearch
option enabled which lets us keep typing to refine our search pattern. /
and ?
really shine when all we want is to jump to something we already have our eyeballs on but they are not fit for every situation:
- when we want to search something that's not directly there, those two commands can make us lose context very quickly,
- when we need to compare the matches.