To search for the next occurence of the text ‘maybe’ from the current cursor position, type:
/maybe<br />
Search backward from the current position by using ? instead of / in the command.
Once you have searched for something, you can find the next occurrence by pressing nor the previous occurrence with N.
Searching in vi/vim is enhanced with regular expressions. For example, to find the next occurence of the text ‘Total’ that occurs at the beginning of a line, use:
/^Total