Zyx wrote:
> On October 29, 2014 10:54:38 PM EAT, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >Christian wrote:
> >
> >> On Di, 28 Okt 2014, Ingo Karkat wrote:
> >> > Well, then perhaps a separate :bvimgrep[add] set of commands would
> >be
> >> > better than overloading the existing commands:
> >> >
> >> > :bvimgrep[!] /{pattern}/[g][j] [bufname]
> >> > :N,Mbvimgrep[!] /{pattern}/[g][j]
> >> > :bvimgrep[!] /{pattern}/[g][j] N1 N2 ...
> >>
> >> Sounds useful. Bram, would you consider including this feature, if I
> >> write a patch for that?
> >
> >I think it can be done with a bit of Vim script, but it might be
> >generally useful, thus nice to work without installing a plugin.
> >
> >It could also be a solution for something that doesn't work yet: Search
> >within a Visual block. Since this is going to be a new command, we can
> >make :'<,'> respect the Visual mode, including block. So you could
> >select a block and type ":bvimgrep /pattern/", then move to matches
> >with
> >:cn.
> >
> >I think we can actually call it ":bgrep". It's very unlikely 'grepprg'
> >is useful to search in buffers and it's shorter to type.
>
> No. It is useful if you use something like ag (aka the silver
> searcher), because VimL regexes lack full Unicode support. Also naming
> command like "bgrep" in place of "bvimgrep" is inconsistent.
How would an external command access text in a buffer? Would have to
write them into a file.
If regex is incomplete we could perhaps fix that.
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