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# Search Backward Through A File
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There are a number of ways to search for a match in a file. One I use quite
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often is hitting `*` while the cursor is over the word I want to find
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matches for. It searches forward jumping to the next occurrence of that
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word.
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It turns out there is a way of doing the same thing, but searching backward
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to the previous occurrence of the word. If you hit `#` with the cursor over
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a word, it will jump backward through the file until it finds an occurrence
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of that word. Keep hitting `#` to keep searching backward.
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See `:h #` for more details.
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