Vim find last occurrence of

Question

In a large buffer, I'd like to scroll down to the last occurrence of pattern pattern.

If I am at the first occurrence, it is easy enough to search for the pattern /, reverse the move to next occurrence n with N and get to the last..

If I am in the middle of a sequence of occurrences.. is there a better way to jump?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15707618/vim-find-last-occurrence-of

Answer 1

An easy way to find the last occurrence is to jump to the end and search backwards:

G?foo<CR>

In fact, there's an even easier way if you were already searching for something. Just jump to the end and search backwards for the thing you were just searching for:

GN

Simple as that.

Edit: if your search occurred on the very last line, then GN would skip over it to the second last occurrence. Using ggN would solve this problem. (And gg?foo<CR> for similar reasons.)