Jerin Joy wrote:
Hi,
I have a lot of source code distributed over a directory hierarchy
structure. I always need to find class declarations, instances where
variables are set etc. Usually I just go to command line and run
something like
find . -name "*.vr" -print | xargs grep 'class foo'
Isn't there an easier way to do this in vim? I can't use cscope since
the source is not in C.
Jerin
:vimgrep /\<class\_s\+foo\>/ *.vr
which applies to Vim 7 only; in earlier versions of Vim you can use
external grep though. The pattern between slashes is a Vim regular
expression; I have arbitrarily put in \< (start of word), \> (end of
word) and \_s\+ (one or more spaces, tabs and/or line breaks).
The results of vimgrep (or grep) end up in a quickfix "error list" and
can be viewed using :cfirst, :cnext, :cprev, :clast, etc.
See
:help quickfix.txt
and in particular
:help :vimgrep
:help :grep
:help :cnext
etc.
Best regards,
Tony.
