Monday, April 4, 2011

Re: basic help with grep in vim 7.3

On Mon, April 4, 2011 6:37 am, Gary Johnson wrote:
> but to be honest, it's not clear to me from that explanation what
> the effect of the g flag is. I don't use :vimgrep very much.

from :h vimgrep:
Without the 'g' flag each line is added only once.
With 'g' every match is added.

So if a pattern matches several times on a line, that line is either
added once (without the g-flag) or every time for every match (with
g-flag) to the quickfix list.

regards,
Christian

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