vim how to search for URL

Question

How would you search for the following string in vim?

http://my.url.com/a/b/c

I\'ve tried (a la Very No Magic)

:/\\Vhttp://         


        

Answer 1

Can also set the search register directly.

:let @/='\Vhttp://my.url.com/a/b/c'

Then you can use n and N like normal.

Answer 2

Use MacVim (or GVim). Open the non-regex GUI search using ⌘f (or ctrlf on Windows). This is the recommended way to do a non-regex search in Vim. GUI Vim has many improvements over terminal vim like this one and I would highly suggest using it full time if you aren't already.

Answer 3

another way to search forward (from the position of your cursor) without escaping is use :s command.

you could do:

:%s@http://my.url.com/a/b/c@@n

then press n to navigate matched text forward, N backwards

If you want to know how many matches in the buffer, use gn instead of n

note that, I said "without escaping", I was talking about the slash, if you want to do search precisely, you have to escape the period. .. since in regex, . means any char.

Answer 4

Searching in vim is just /, not :/. You can search for that string escaping only the slashes: /http:\/\/my.url.com\/a\/b\/c

Answer 5

I'm not sure why you get not an editor command since I don't. The simplest way to search without having to escape slashes is to use ? instead, e.g.

:?http://my.url.com/a/b/c
" or since the : is not necessary
?http://my.url.com/a/b/c

This does search in the other direction, so just keep that in mind