Re: Using vimgrep

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de> wrote:

Excerpts from David Lam's message of Fri Feb 04 23:57:04 +0000 2011:

> you probably want...   vimgrep pattern file_folder/*.c
>
> maybe more useful is going through all sub folders recursively...
> vimgrep pattern file_folder/**/*.c

If I got you correct you want to create a file like this:

== directories-to-search ==
project1/
project2/
project3/

Then you want Vim to read the lines and grep each folder which was
listed in it?

 let name = input("the word to grep for :")
 for folder in readfile("directories-to-search")
   exec 'vimgrepadd '.fnameescape(folder)..' '.fnameescape(folder).'/**/*'
 endfor

Put it into a function and map that.

Marc Weber

Thanks Marc and David.

The final solution for me:

I put all the directories into a file called sdir.txt, put this file under the same folder of the source files,

add this function to vimrc file:

""Find the string user input in different folder

""put the search directories in sdir.txt file, 

""under the same dir of the source code

nmap <F1>  :call <SID>Searchwordgl()<cr>

function s:Searchwordgl()

  let searchstring = expand("<cword>")      "search string under the cursor

  let searchdirlist = readfile('sdir.txt','',6)      "read directories into list

  let searchdir = join(searchdirlist)             " join the list into string

  if searchstring != ""

    execute "vimgrep " searchstring searchdir

  endif

endfunction 

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