On 11/9/06, A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > mailer offers it) rather than "Reply to Sender", can't you? >
On 11/9/06, Neil Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the info.. I will be sure to use 'Reply to all'. With regard to top vs. bottom posting, i'll have to dig through my gmail settings... I image they support either way. Thanks again
Btw ... Is there a way to map a key such that vim will invoke vimgrep on whatever symbol the cursor is on?
