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- [Instructor] A lot of times,

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you'll see where you'd like to be in the text.

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In other editors you'd leave the keyboard and use the mouse.

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In Vim you have many other ways to navigate to the text

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that doesn't require taking your hands off the keyboard.

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One that I use a lot is regular expressions.

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Let's open sherlock.txt, vim sherlock.txt.

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Say you'd like to move to the word trained,

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which is in line 11.

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If you know how many lines and words you need to move,

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you can use these motions.

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But an easier way is to search.

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Make sure you are in normal mode by hitting Escape,

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or Control + C if you don't have Escape.

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And then type /tra, and then Enter.

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And we see that we are right where we want to.

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You can use more than words for searching,

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you can use regular expressions.

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A regular expression is a way to match text,

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and it's beyond the scope of this video.

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There are many resources out there

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about regular expressions that you can read.

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Check out our Learning Regular Expressions course

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for more information.

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For example, say you're looking for the word chamber,

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but you're not sure how it's spelled.

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Is there an A, or an E after the CH?

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Doesn't matter, use a dot

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which is the regular expression for any character.

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So /ch.mb, and Enter.

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And now we're right on the chamber.

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If you'd like to repeat the last search again,

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you don't have to type it, just press N for next.

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And we're on chamber again.

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The forward slash command

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searches forward from where you are.

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If you'd like to search backwards, use question mark.

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For example, ?walk,

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and I'm back to walks before where I was.

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I move around a lot using regular expressions,

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I'm sure that with a bit of practice

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you'll find them useful as well.