Search for word boundaries in Vim & VSCode Vim

So you know that / will bring up search in Vim and VSCode Vim. That’s good!

But then you named a variable is and now want to find every occurence of that word – but only where it stands alone. So no places where it occurs as part of your isLargePizza(…


This content originally appeared on DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 and was authored by Jonas Schumacher

So you know that / will bring up search in Vim and VSCode Vim. That's good!

But then you named a variable is and now want to find every occurence of that word - but only where it stands alone. So no places where it occurs as part of your isLargePizza() function for example.

Luckily, that's doable: \< matches the beginning of a word and \> the end.

So hitting ...

/\<is\>

... will to the trick!


This content originally appeared on DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 and was authored by Jonas Schumacher


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