Re: grepping a string from a large code base

On Jun 22, 9:27 pm, Jim Green <student.northwest...@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.
>

You don't specify the language you're coding in, but I started using
Cscope fairly recently for C code, and it works pretty well.
Supposedly it allows searching for grep-style patterns, but I haven't
really used that feature. Vim has a built-in cscope interface that
works well for my needs.

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