Find the next occurrence of a variable in vim

Question

I would like to know if/how I can make vim look for the next occurrence of a variable. Let\'s say the variable\'s name is simply \'n\', then /n would give me all oc

Answer 1

If you have the cursor over the variable in question, you can press * and it will search for the next occurrence or # will search for the previous one.

This is equivalent to typing:

/\

(\< matches on the start of a word and \> matches on the end of word). The only difference (for reasons I'm not sure of) is that * and # don't pay attention to the 'smartcase' option.

See:

:help *
:help /\<