vimgrep vs. lvimgrep

[Kev]

I understand the difference between vimgrep and lvimgrep as far as the
locaion list or the quickfix list, but am unclear on reasons for using
one over the other.

I usually use vimgrep as an alternative to :g/pattern/# to find
matches if I expect to find a large number of matches that I need to
work through. Are there any benefits to using :vimgrep over :lvimgrep
or the other way around?

TIA,
Kevin

[Tony Mechelynck]

With :lvimgrep you may have several location lists at the same time (in
different windows), and do a new search without clobbering the other lists.
Thus you may go to the first/previous/next/last match in one list, and compare
it in another window with the last/next/previous/first match in another list.

I don't use it, :vimgrep is good enough for me.

The advantage of :vimgrep over :g is that it can work on many files at once,
for example

:vimgrep /\<Plantagenet\>/g ../**/*.htm

Best regards,
Tony.
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[Yegappan Lakshmanan]

On 8/13/07, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Kev wrote:
> > I understand the difference between vimgrep and lvimgrep as far as the
> > locaion list or the quickfix list, but am unclear on reasons for using
> > one over the other.
> >
> > I usually use vimgrep as an alternative to :g/pattern/# to find
> > matches if I expect to find a large number of matches that I need to
> > work through. Are there any benefits to using :vimgrep over :lvimgrep
> > or the other way around?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Kevin
>
> With :lvimgrep you may have several location lists at the same time (in
> different windows), and do a new search without clobbering the other lists.
> Thus you may go to the first/previous/next/last match in one list, and compare
> it in another window with the last/next/previous/first match in another list.
>

The extension of the above mentioned advantage is that if you use tabs
to display multiple files, then you can have a separate grep output
for each tab. If you use the "vimgrep" command then you have only
one global list for the grep output.

- Yegappan

[Tony Mechelynck]

s/tab/window/g

see ":help location-list"

Best regards,
Tony.
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