Re: grepping a string from a large code base

Hi,
will global or idutils support searching for any string? or they only
support search for variable/function names?

Thx!

On Jun 22, 11:58 pm, Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegapp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:27 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.
>
> 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.htmlhttp://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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