n for next match, N for previous match. In combination with this it's almost as effective. Personally I'd use ctags and the http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmld

n for next match, N for previous match. In combination with this it's almost as effective. Personally I'd use ctags and the http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/tagsrch.html#tag-commands http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/tagsrch.html#tag-comma... search functionality of the tags. But I'll give you that normal text searching in emacs is a tiny bit more efficient :)