Let's say I want to highlight/search all the lines in vim which start with "start123" and end with "321end"

  There could be anything between these two patterns.

I tried following but no luck.

/^start123\&321end$

Ofcourse I can do this on bash with grep -G '^start123' teest|grep -G '321end$' But I want to highlight this strings in vim. Just wondering.

Let's say I want to highlight/search all the lines in a file opened with vim with following criteria.

Criteria: Lines which start with "start123" and end with "321end". There could be anything between these two patterns.

I tried following but no luck.

/^start123\&321end$

Ofcourse I can do this on bash with grep -G '^start123' teest|grep -G '321end$' But I want to highlight this strings in vim. Just wondering.

Let's say I want to highlight/search all the lines in vim which start with "start123" and end with "321end"

There could be anything between these two patterns.

I tried following but no luck.

/^start123\&321end$

Let's say I want to highlight/search all the lines in vim which start with "start123" and end with "321end"

There could be anything between these two patterns.

I tried following but no luck.

/^start123\&321end$

Ofcourse I can do this on bash with grep -G '^start123' teest|grep -G '321end$' But I want to highlight this strings in vim. Just wondering.