Can developers survive without a good search in their editor? Who has never used the famous find and replace trick in one or multiple files?

Nobody indeed.

The good new is: Vim search features are pure awesomeness. With a minimum of configuration, you can search whatever you want, wherever you want, at light speed.

We’ll see in this article how to:

• Search in the current file.
• Search in multiple files.
• Find and replace everything you dream of.
• Use great plugins to transform Vim in a Search Monster™.

Without the search features I’ll present you in this article, Vim would maybe not be part of my Mouseless Development Environment.