How do I search in all files of my project using VIM?
I've found an even better solution for this: FZF
It simply searches through everything in your project asynchronously using the :Ag
command.
Use :grep
or :vimgrep
to search file contents. The results are put onto the "location list" which you can open by typing :cw
Enter.
Syntax for :grep
is, by default, the same as the grep(1)
command:
:grep 'my pattern.*' /path/to/dir
By default it will search the current directory (:pwd
). I added set autochdir
to my .vimrc so my PWD always follows the file I'm editing.
The major difference between :grep
and :vimgrep
is that :vimgrep
(:vim
for short) uses Vim-compatible regular expressions, whereas :grep
uses whatever regular expressions your &grepprg
uses.
You can use a custom program by setting &grepprg
to something different. I personally like ack which uses Perl-compatible regex.