Re: quickly viewing a directory of files

On 2015-04-04, Chris Lott wrote:
> I have a directory of files with names like 'clips-20150101' 'clips-20150102'
> etc. I need to open a file, jump to a particular string, optionally yank some
> arbitrary text, and repeat for every file in the directory. What's the quickest
> way to do this in Vim?

What I do is this:

:grep 'particular string' clips-2015*

Then traverse the resulting quickfix list and yank the desired text
into an upper-case register so that the yanks are accumulated.

Traversing the quickfix list is made a little faster with these
mappings:

:nmap <silent> <C-N> :cn<CR>zv
:nmap <silent> <C-P> :cp<CR>zv

HTH,
Gary

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