Vim Find Words
From Regex Regular Expression Encyclopedia
You can use this recipe for finding single words in a block of text. The expression will find only complete words surrounded by spaces.
[edit] Code
/\<word\>
[edit] How It Works
The word boundary character class \b found in Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions (PCREs) doesn't exist in extended POSIX expressions. Instead, you can use the character class \< to refer to the left word boundary and the character class \> to refer to the word boundary at the end of the word.
| Regular Expression | Description |
|---|---|
| \< | a word boundary (a space or beginning of a line, or punctuation) . . . |
| w | a w followed by . . . |
| o | an o, followed by . . . |
| r | an r, then . . . |
| d | a d, and finally . . . |
| \> | a word boundary at the end of the word . . . |
