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From: fozzy@mips.bhpese.oz.au (Andrew Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Restricted Searches in VI
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.071658.1059@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>
Date: 22 Apr 91 07:16:58 GMT
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In vi is it possible to restrict the range of a search.  Specifically
I want to be able to search through just one function in a .c file.
I've inherited some badly written code that has functions that just go on
and on and I'm trying to break them up into smaller units.  To do this I need
to be able to find where local variables are used but not if that name is
also used in some other function later on.

If it's too much of a hassel I'll continue as I have been by checking with
"[[" to see which function I am in, but I thought there may be some way of
combining either "[[" or "%" with a "/" to give a restricted search.

Thanx