Re: vim: how to search a pattern through all files in a compressed file (e.g. a tar.gz ball)?

On 09/14/2012 03:19 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> You would still have all files concatenated, which might be a little
> unwieldy if there are many of them.

b.t.w
I think in non-vim tools zless (or gzip -cd *.gz | less , equivalently)
is super on this . it has the file-spanning next-search (esc-n) that
give you the filename hint about current file that the match is located.

looks for the *.gz files, the best solution is (if netrw don't have sth
fancy), maybe the zless :

login to remote server (telnet/ssh)
zless *.gz
/pattern to define search
n to go next match
esc n to go to next match, spanning all files that contains the match
c-g to see what file we are in
v export (only) current file into vim

for tar.gz file, looks still no better way to figure out which file we
are in, on the fly...

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