====== Searching ======

There are two kinds of searching in **zim**: searching within a page, this is called **Find**, and searching through multiple pages, this is called **Search**.

===== Find =====
The "//Edit//->//Find//" menu item  triggers a search box at the bottom of the page. By typing a word here you can find occurences of this word in the current page. You can use either the ''<Alt>N'' and ''<Alt>P'' or the ''<Ctrl>G'' and <Shift><Ctrl>G'' keybindings to go to the next/previous occurence.

===== Search =====
The "//Edit//->//Search//" menu item triggers the search dialog to pop up. This dialog allows you to search for pages that contain a certain word.

You can have multiple search dialogs open at the same time.

=== Back links ===
As a special case you can search for a page name. Instead of a full text search a cache lookup will be done and a list is shown of pages linking to the page you searched for. Page names are defined as words containing a ":" character in this context.

When you open the "//Edit//->//Search Back links//" menu item you get the same Search dialog as with //Search// but the name of the current page is filled in already. The same dialog can be triggered by clicking on the "Back links" area in the status bar.