On Friday, September 14, 2012 12:06:41 PM UTC-5, sc wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:14:41PM -0400, ping wrote: > > > assume I have a tar ball containing muliple files and I don't want > > > to uncompress everything in a folder to start my search (since vim > > > can open compressed/tar.ed files on the fly), is there way to search > > > a keyword through all the files in the tarball? > > > > do you have zgrep available? if so you can > > > > zgrep 'pattern' tar-gz-file | vim - > > > > sc
I didn't know about zgrep! But how about setting 'grepprg' to use it rather than grep? Then you can navigate results easier. -- 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
