Vim: How do you efficiently search for text?

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Mar 15, 202610488 views

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Whenever you want to search for text in vim you would type / and then the string you are looking for. However, when the string is a long one, and you want to do this multiple times, is there a way to do it so that you don't have to type / more than once?

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andthisreallylongstring

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Press "n" after you completed a search, then it will repeat the previous action(search).

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