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It is faster and sorts results better. It also works outside of Vim, but has great built in Vim support: github. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Paul Ruane Paul Ruane Keith Pinson 7, 6 6 gold badges 56 56 silver badges 98 98 bronze badges.

Martin Baum Martin Baum 49 2 2 bronze badges. And ctrlp. You can use! Peter Tillemans Peter Tillemans Nikolaus Gradwohl Nikolaus Gradwohl How can grep, lgrep, vimgrep or lvimgrep can do this? They search in a file not for a file. Could you please explain? I could not get it to work. Quickfix-like result browsing Usage: Find my. How to get a nice tab label then? Byron Katz Byron Katz 5 5 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges.

You don't need a plugin only for this function, below code snippet is enough. Please add example how to use it. Eugene Prikazchikov Eugene Prikazchikov 1, 1 1 gold badge 12 12 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. You can add vim keybinding to call this command using selected word as a pattern. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Searching for files. Edit source History Talk 0. Cancel Save. Fan Feed. This allows in-text navigating while using normal editor commands.

Vi and Vim open a file in normal mode by default. To switch to normal mode, press Esc. The text editor highlights the first instance of the pattern after the cursor. In the image below, you can see that the result is part of a word that contains the specified pattern.

This is because the command does not specify to search for whole words. Vim and Vi can open files at a specified word allowing you to skip a step and go directly to the searched term. The text editor opens the file and the first line it displays is the one containing the term "root" , as in the image below.

The above will work on Windows, but this will not, for example:. This is especially useful if your vimrc file is used on multiple platforms, and you want to write mappings for common searches as below.

To include dotfiles in a search, you can do something like the following to search dotfiles in the current working directory:. You can use a mapping, command, or abbreviation for common searches, like a search for a word under the cursor in all files of the same type in the current directory. This can be especially useful if you have it automatically open the results list as well. Note: Using a cabbrev and a mapping together may not work very well, because the mapping will trigger the cabbrev. Also, be careful not to use common text in your cabbrev, such as making one for the "vim" command, because then whenever you try to edit a.

You could avoid this by moving the cursor to somewhere else in the line before pressing enter. Using vimgrep to search hundreds of files can be slow. A search taking only a few seconds using an external grep program might take nearly a minute with vimgrep. One reason for this is that vimgrep uses Vim's procedures to read files, which can involve execution of several autocommands.

You can make use of the :noautocmd command modifier to significantly increase search speed by temporarily disabling all autocmds during the execution of the :vimgrep. It may also solve other issues you may have, such as unwanted interaction with plugins that trigger off BufRead events.

Use it as follows:. See :help :noautocmd.