Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Re: grepping a string from a large code base

On Jun 23, 5:13 pm, Jim Sun <student.northwest...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you guys, I guess I'll focus on how to use grep and ack more
> efficiently... I need to grep log strings from C++ code to see where
> it comes from and then debug...
>

Well, at the very least...I'd recommend using Vim's :grep or :cfile
commands in order to look at the results from within Vim more
efficiently. See :help quickfix and http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Find_in_files_within_Vim

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