If you want to clear text from the screen, use the following options:

Command What It Does
Control-L Clear a scrambled screen. Also called refreshing the screen.
:r filename Insert a file at line after cursor
:16 r filename Insert file after line 16

Some documents can get quite large, making it difficult to find text in them. The vi editor delivers the capability to search and edit text in your documents using the following commands:

Command What It Does
/string Search forward for string
?string Search backward for string
n Find next occurrence of string
N Find previous occurrence of string
:%s/old/new/g Search and replace globally