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Search Entrire Project For Pattern Using vimgrep in Vim

Tags:  Vim   
Created on Fri, 06 Jul 2012.
Last Modified on Sun, 08 Jul 2012.

Motivation Behind This Cheatsheet

wanted to be able to search all files recursively in vim

The Cheatsheet

use:

:pwd

to check that you are in your project root. then to search use:

:vimgrep /pattern/j **/*

Further Discussion

Pattern can be any kind of vim-regex

Sources:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Find_in_files_within_Vim


PLEASE let me know if I'm doing something wrong, or if you have any suggestions or requests~

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