Vim Screencast Tutorial #3 - Search, Find and Replace

The third in my series of Vim tutorials. This discusses navigating a document with search/find, replacing text quickly and a few other advanced things.

Teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcpQ7k...
Tutorial #1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6WCm6...
Tutorial #2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPDoI7...
Tutorial #3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_CfI...

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type old placed you can see that I have
something called incremental search
turned up which means that as I typed
it's actually finding what I'm so
as well as being press Enter now this
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thats will allow me to search for the
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all instances type to through
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percentage this means the entire
document
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chain turn in the through so look
this line this will become true and this
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next thing I did was
I just sure of the the pound key
which is the opposite at the store just
goes up find the next word
start down dollars will
one other thing show the slash to search
so I can search
parameters now Alana search
up the document a connection question
mark and
then search
but not say this isn't the one that I
wonder
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so I wanna go to the next generate true
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to go back now the direction them
and shift n depending on the direction
the original search you did so the
search for
constructor with a slash
that and it's good go down shift
back if I search for pitcher the
question mark
and its gonna go up so regular and one
keep going in the direction the original
research
and remember all these things I showed
you
are all motions so if I want to it's a
delete until tight
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think I've ever done it before
but you can also Italy star
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but now know a few more ways to get
around document hope that is helpful
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