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On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:04:33 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2025-08-16, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 
>> I've used Vim for years, have the Vim book, and know I use about 1% of
>> its capabilities. If I stray from my trails, like trying to show line
>> numbers,
>> I have to look it up. I know I can do a horizontal split but I only do
>> vertical splits so I'd have to look that up too.
> 
> Occasionally I'll find I have enough use for something to take the time
> to learn it.  My most recent one with vim is /\<foo\>, which finds "foo"
> only if it's an entire word (like grep's -w option).

I've used that for a long time. It's an easy one to remember.  <Shift>* on 
a word searches for the word. If you look at the bottom you'll see 
/\<printf\> if that's what the * search was. That only seems to work if 
there is more than one.

                else if (strcmp(el, "ele") == 0) {

If I search on \<ele\> it finds it. Using * says 'search hit BOTTOM, 
continuing at TOP '  In any case it doesn't find last_elevation, ele_text, 
elevation, min_elevation and so forth that /ele does.