Re: Is there way to show search matches in a separate window similar to Acrobat?

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Erik Falor <ewfalor@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 05:35:48PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
>> Hi, The attached image shows what is available in Acrobat, where all
>> the search results will show in one window with search keyword
>> highlighted. This can be convenient as one can easily see the search
>> results across all the document and can jump to the hit easily by
>> clicking.
>>
>> Is there something similar in vim?
>
> You may try
>
> :vimgrep /pattern/ % | copen
>
> or
>
> :lvimgrep /pattern/ % | lopen
>
> The '%' refers to the current file. You may use * and ** to refer to
> many files at once (recursively).

Thanks. Is there a way to simultaneously highlight all the matches in
the newly opened window?


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Regards,
Peng

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