Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Re: grepping a string from a large code base

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Jim Green
<student.northwestern@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi vim community,
> I need to constantly perform a grepping of a string(eg, sth in logs)
> from a large code base, now I use grep on the command line to do this.
> I just started using ctags but it can not do the grepping of arbitrary
> string for me.
>
> could any vim users point me to a popular tool that I can use to
> improve my efficiency, I use only vim to browse and write code so I
> hope this is not off topic here.
>

If you are programming in C or C++ or Java, then you can use GNU id-utils.
Refer to the following pages:

http://www.gnu.org/software/idutils/manual/idutils.html
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=251

You can also try using GNU global:

http://www.gnu.org/software/global/

- Yegappan

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