Well, something 100% untested would be something like
:nnoremap <f8> :grep -r '<c-r><c-w>' *<cr>
The issue with this solution is that it "only does a plain
grep" as I noted in my original mail. It will match the word
against *any* appearance of it, for example if your cursor is
on the word "approx" which is a function name in your C code
then it will also match the word "approximation" in any of the
comments. While the * command only matches words which are
exactly "approx" and will not match "approximation". This is
the behaviour I'm looking for accross multiple files.
Ah...try changing it to (again, 100% untested)
:grep -r '<bslash><lt><c-r><c-w><bslash>>' *<cr>
(you might not have to escape those backslashes) Assuming the
underlying grep mechanism supports it, it makes use of \<...\> to
ensure word-boundaries. GNU grep seems to work with \<...\> but
I don't know about any sort of internal greppage, or non-GNU grep
versions.
:help \<
Just another idea to try...
-tim
