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Comment by johncoltrane | Hacker News Reader

It's worth noting that :vsplit can and should be shortened to :vs

Also, depending on how you like to work, keeping a stable working directory can be very useful:

    :vs **/bar<Tab>

is somehow less mentally taxing than:

    :vs ../../models/bar.php

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Can you point me to docs on in file searching? Those symbols are predictably hard to google. Based on a little messing around, it appears that * is what I expect from bash, and can also include directory separators.

    :h starstar

roughly means the same thing as -r or -R.

Google is not the right place to search for help: Vim comes with an extensive and easily searchable documentation.

    :h **

is all you need to get your answer.

Wow. I did not think vim help would deal with symbols well, either. Thanks!

Google helps when you don't exactly know what's the name of the thing you're looking for. That's in my case 85% of all searches.

You could try :helpgrep foo next time.

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