Find Mode

Tips

• Find queries are global and persistent -- if you search for 'test' in one tab, pressing n on any other tab will search for 'test' as well.
• If your search matches the contents of a textbox whose contents you wish to modify, press <ESC> to enter insert mode and begin editing.

Case-sensitivity and RegExps

• Find mode uses smartcase -- it defaults to a case-insensitive search if you use only lowercase characters, but switches to case-sensitive mode upon detecting capital letters. However, you can force case sensitivity by using the \I escape sequence. Hence /test is case-insensitive, /Test is case-sensitive, and both /test\I and /te\Ist are case-sensitive and match 'test'.
• The \r escape sequence ensures that the search string gets treated like a Javascript regular expression, so /t.st\r matches 'test', 'tast', 'tost', etc.
• Case-sensitivity behaves the same way for regular expressions -- /t.st\r will match 'TosT', but /t.st\r\I will only match 'tast', 'tost', etc.
• Blackslashes themselves can be escaped, so /test\\ will match 'test'.