Use a /e search flag if you want to skip the "pattern not found" errors.Use a /c search flag if you want Vim to ask for confirmation before replacing a search term.Use the \ constructs around the search pattern like so: :argdo %s/\/foobar/g Use a word boundary if you wanted to search for "foo" but not "foo_bar".Here are some tips for searching (based on some of the comments): Once you're happy with the list, now you can use Vim's powerful :argdo command which runs a command for every file in the argument list: :argdo %s/search/replace/g If you want to add or delete files from the list, you can use the :argadd or the :argdelete commands respectively. You can view the current args list by running :args by itself.
You can even use the shell's find command to get a list of all files in the current directory by running: :args `find. Notice that this is also like opening Vim with vim **/*.rb. You can pass in multiple filenames or even globs.įor example, :args **/*.rb will recursively search the current directory for ruby files. Simply open Vim and then use the :args command to populate the argument list. If you want to perform the search/replace in a project tree, you can use Vim's argument list. The downside to using these external tools it that each uses a different regex syntax from Vim’s.There are several ways to do this. All of these external tools integrate with the quickfix list, and you can find Vim plugins for each of them: If you want to search a large codebase and get results fast, then you’d be better off using an external tool like git-grep, ack or the silver searcher. On the downside, vimgrep isn’t as quick as some of the alternatives out there. For me, that convenience is the killer feature of vimgrep.
I love being able to test my regular expression in one buffer using the search command, then use the same pattern without modification to search across the entire project. I reach for vimgrep when I want to use Vim’s built-in regex engine. The square-bracket mappings are not built-in to Vim, but are added by Tim Pope’s unimpaired plugin (which I recommend). We can traverse them with the following commands: Ex command The results from the vimgrep command are collected in the quickfix list.
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Not having to think about which files you’re dealing with frees you up to focus on the more interesting part of the vimgrep command: the pattern.įor more ideas on how to specify the set of files for vimgrep to look inside, check out these articles on ack -f and git ls-files. We can avoid this repetition by populating the arglist with the set of files we want to work with, then using the special symbol # (double hash) to reference the arglist: :args `find. It would be a drag to have to specify the same set of files again and again: :vim /pattern1/ `find. Suppose that we wanted to search the same set of files for one pattern, then another pattern, and so on. The special # symbol is expanded to represent each of the files from the arglist. The first three from this list should look familiar if you’ve watched Vimcast #42 - Populating the arglist. the # symbol, representing the arglist.one or more filepaths (separated by whitespace).When running the vimgrep command, we have to specify at least one file for the command to search inside. Specifiying the set of files for vimgrep to search On the command line, / (that is: CTRL-R followed by /) will insert the last search pattern. You can search for the last pattern in your search history by running: :vimgrep /// % You can supply any pattern that would work with Vim’s standard search command. We can use the :vimgrep command to populate the quickfix list with search results from the current file: :vimgrep / field behaves more or less as you would expect. That’s not a feature provided by Vim’s search command, but it is a feature supplied by the quickfix list. Have you ever wished that Vim would report your position as you navigate through search matches? For example, by saying: ‘match 2 out of 5’.
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