To be frank, I don't search in vim (very cruel, lazy man. Not invested time to learn it.).
Instead, I use grep from terminal (I use terminator, so Ctrl+Shift+E or Ctrl+Shift+O). Or open Sublime, VSCode to search alone. I don't think, it's normal. I heard many people talks about ripgrep, ag, etc. Didn't invest much time.
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To be frank, I don't search in vim (very cruel, lazy man. Not invested time to learn it.).
Instead, I use grep from terminal (I use terminator, so Ctrl+Shift+E or Ctrl+Shift+O). Or open Sublime, VSCode to search alone. I don't think, it's normal. I heard many people talks about ripgrep, ag, etc. Didn't invest much time.