Re: grepping a string from a large code base

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Jim Green
<student.northwestern@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> will global or idutils support searching for any string? or they only
> support search for variable/function names?
>

You cannot search for arbitrary text using these tools.
The global and idutils manuals describe the keywords that can be
searched. The keywords usually supported are the names of functions,
variables, macros, structures and enumerations. You cannot search
for text in comments and strings.

Yegappan

> 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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