I want to search a word from my current cursor position in vim to upward in file.How to achieve this?Also how to do same for downward in file.
Vim: searching upward/downward in file from specific point/position
vim;search;administration
To search in reverse from your cursor for a word, just use ?. So to find the word fred you would issue ?fred.For forward searching you use /, using fred as an example again you would issue /fred.If you want to continue searching for the same term, in the same direction you can use the n command. (Or you can issue ? or / without arguments).