On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:58:18PM +0300, Erez D wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:04:30AM +0300, Erez D wrote: > > > hi > > > > > > i am running gvim under XP, and want to search for a word in a list of c > > > files, > > > > > > i could do that by: > > > :args *.c > > > :argdo /word > > > > > > but i prefer to get the output similar to the output of make: a list of > > > lines where i can click and get to the places > > > > > > i tried combining argdo with vimgrep or grep but wasn't successful. > > > > > > anyone ? > > > > :h grep > > > > Vim has two ways to find matches for a pattern: Internal and external. > > The advantage of the internal grep is that it works on all systems and > > uses the powerful Vim search patterns. > > > > ... > > you are probably a mathematician, > your answer is exact > and it does not help in any way ...
:grep is basically what you're looking for. As I don't know what your specific setup is, I refered you to its documentation. Just as ':make' has basically the same syntax as the original command (:make targetname), :grep has the same basic syntax as the shell command: ':grep pattern files' -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
