Help with @/ (last search) in vimgrep command

[Lewis Thompson]

Hi

I would like to create a command to use vimgrep on my last search
(made with /)

I've tried:

command Gr vimgrep /@//g %

but this doesn't work. Can anybody help me out with how to do this
correctly?

thanks, Lewis

[John Beckett]

Lewis Thompson wrote:
> I would like to create a command to use vimgrep on my last
> search (made with /)
>
> I've tried:
>
> command Gr vimgrep /@//g %

command Gr execute 'vimgrep /'.@/.'/g %'

John

[Tony Mechelynck]

Method I.

Don't write any user-command. Just hit Ctrl-R followed by / between the
two slashes delimiting your vimgrep pattern.

See "help c_CTRL-R"

Method II.

command -bar -nargs=+ -complete=file
\ Gr exec 'vimgrep /' . @/ . '/g' <q-args>

then ":Gr %" will search the current file, and ":Gr *.[ch]" will search
*.c and *.h files, etc.

The idea is that @/ (when used to mean the latest search pattern) is a
variable name, not a string value.

See
:help :command
:help :execute
:help expression-syntax
then scroll down a page or so
until you see the various kinds of |expr9|

Best regards,
Tony.
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