Neil Gabriel wrote:
I did in fact look at that. Reading through the "internal" grep
however, I do not see a way of running a recursive search (i could be
missing it).
Thanks
If you mean recursing into directories, see the ** wildcard. I don't remember
where in the help it's mentioned but that's what it means.
A few (untested) silly examples:
:vimgrep /\<if\>/g $VIMRUNTIME/**/*.vim
to find all "if" statements in all distributed Vim scripts.
vimgrep /\s/g /**/*
to find all spaces and tabs anywhere on your hard disk (the current drive on
Windows, _all_ currently mounted filesystems on Unix). This might, of course,
take quite a lot of time. Don't try it unless you're ready to go to bed and
see in the morrow whether Vim has finished searching!
Best regards,
Tony.
P.S.
1. Top-posting is frowned upon in the Vim lists.
2. Please don't use private mail unless you're straying off-topic. I suppose
you can educate yourself to use "Reply to All" (or "Reply to List" if your
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