Thank you guys, I guess I'll focus on how to use grep and ack more efficiently... I need to grep log strings from C++ code to see where it comes from and then debug...
have a great day! On 23 June 2010 13:58, Yegappan Lakshmanan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Jim Green > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> will global or idutils support searching for any string? or they only >> support search for variable/function names? >> > > You cannot search for arbitrary text using these tools. > The global and idutils manuals describe the keywords that can be > searched. The keywords usually supported are the names of functions, > variables, macros, structures and enumerations. You cannot search > for text in comments and strings. > > Yegappan > >> Thx! >> >> On Jun 22, 11:58 pm, Yegappan Lakshmanan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Jim Green >>> >>> <[email protected]> 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. >>> >>> If you are programming in C or C++ or Java, then you can use GNU id-utils. >>> Refer to the following pages: >>> >>> http://www.gnu.org/software/idutils/manual/idutils.htmlhttp://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=251 >>> >>> You can also try using GNU global: >>> >>> http://www.gnu.org/software/global/ >>> >>> - Yegappan >> >> -- >> You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. >> Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. >> For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php >> > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
