On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 07:27:42PM -0700, Jim Green wrote: > Hi vim community, > I need to constantly perform a grepping of a string(eg, sth in logs) > from a large code base, now I use grep on the command line to do this. > I just started using ctags but it can not do the grepping of arbitrary > string for me. > > could any vim users point me to a popular tool that I can use to > improve my efficiency, I use only vim to browse and write code so I > hope this is not off topic here. > > Thank you, > Jim
I've been using ack (http://betterthangrep.com) which is a clever little Perl program that smartly navigates your source tree and avoids version control files (eg. .git, .svn, CVS, etc.). I highly recommend it. After you install it to your $PATH, add a line like this to your ftplugin/cpp.vim to integrate it: setlocal grepprg=ack\ --no-heading\ --smart-case\ -H\ --cpp -- Erik Falor Registered Linux User #445632 http://counter.li.org
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