Get grep results like ctrl-]
gbog
I'm looking for a way to grep from inside vim. I'm aware of :grep
command but I'm not satisfied with the way the results are handled:
they are all loaded as "errors" like if I used a compiler. I would
like the grep result to be displayed the same way as when I do Ctrl-],
then I type the number of the hit, and it opens as a new buffer.
Any cue?
Thanks.
Ben Schmidt
I don't know of a way you can make :grep work like :tselect with tags.
But perhaps it would suit you to do
:copen
and then scroll with your cursor in that window and hit Enter on the
match you want to go to. Do you know about that?
To make it more convenient you could wrap the :grep command in some user
command to automate the opening of the quickfix window (:copen) and have
an autocommand to close it when it is left or map to close it when you
press Enter on an item (perhaps--don't know how that would interact with
Vim's current behaviour for Enter in a quickfix--it might already be a
map of some kind).
Ben.
Yegappan Lakshmanan
You can use the Grep Vim plugin which provides the above functionality
and other additional features:
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=311
- Yegappan
gbog
wrote:
One little problem though, I'm used to type :E to get the file
explorer, and now this command is ambiguous, matches Egrep also. I
only use Grep, not Egrep, Fgrep or Agrep, so is there a way to
disallow them?
>
> - Yegappan
Ben Schmidt
> One little problem though, I'm used to type :E to get the file
> explorer, and now this command is ambiguous, matches Egrep also. I
> only use Grep, not Egrep, Fgrep or Agrep, so is there a way to
> disallow them?
Well, one way is to just delete those commands in a script that you're
sure will run after the grep plugin. Assuming it's
~/.vim/plugin/grep.vim, I suggest putting the following in
~/.vim/after/plugin/grep.vim (create all necessary directories, too):
:delcommand Egrep
:delcommand Fgrep
:delcommand Agrep
Ben.