vimgrep

I'm using gvim. Using vimgrep on current directory to find text across *.sql files. As it searches files, it just shows me file name at a time and in the end opens one file up. Is it possible to open all files as tabs? Basically I want to open all files because I want to replace the 'vimgrepped' pattern with a some other text. To automate actions on the QuickFix list locations, I have written a command similar to :bufdo or :windo that executes a command for each item. command! -nargs=+ Qfixdo call QuickFixDo(<q-args>) function! QuickFixDo(cmd) let bufnam = {} for q in getqflist() let bufnam[q

I'm using ag in Vim with good results for string/file search. However, there seems to be not much documentation how patterns are constructed for ag. I'm trying to use ag instead of vimgrep in an example from the Practical Vim book. I want to find every occurrence of "Pragmatic Vim" in all files in a directory recursively, and substitute this string with "Practical Vim". There is also "Pragmatic Bookshelf" in some files, and that string must remain. the book suggests this approach: /Pragmatic\ze Vim :vimgrep /<C-r>// **/*.txt And after that step, populate quickfix list with :Qargs plugin

In vim, I do search with vimgrep frequently. I have mapping like below: map <leader>s :execute "noautocmd vimgrep /\\<" . expand("<cword>") . "\\>/gj **/*.*" <Bar> cw<CR> 5 The problem is that there are some temporary subfolders (like obj, objd) that I don't want to search for. How can I exclude subfolders matching given patterns. For example, subfolders with prefix "objd" should not be included in searching. As of Vim 7.3.570, you can use wildignore to exclude patterns with vimgrep. For example, to ignore the objd subfolder: :set wildignore+=objd/** Additional exclusions can be added by