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- [Instructor] A lot of times, I'm at a position in the text

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where there is a word,

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and I'd like to see where I used the same word next.

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This is common when programming

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and trying to find out when a variable is used.

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Open sherlock.txt, vim sherlock.txt.

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And now type 3j6w.

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What did you just do?

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You moved three lines down, and six words to the right.

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Now we'd like to see where the name Irene

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is used next.

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Instead of using search with forward slash,

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we can use the asterisk.

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So, asterisk, the asterisk command searches forward

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for the word under the cursor.

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Now we can use End or asterisk again

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to repeat the search.

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End, end.

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This is super handy.

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I'm using it a lot, it's a big time saver.

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If you like to search backwards for the current word,

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use the hash mark.

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Hash mark, hash mark.