![]() ![]() Modern text editors like VSCode makes it very easy to search and replace string across multiple files. The answer to "why do we need grep in Vim?" is that it will let us to do what I'll going to cover next: search and replace in multiple files. You might wonder, "Well, this is nice but I never used :grep in Vim, plus can't we just use :Rg to find string in files? When will I ever need to use :grep?" We can use :copen to display quickfix window and :cclose to close quickfix window. I won't go over quickfix here because it's outside this article's scope. Vim :grep command uses quickfix to display results. I can now run a more succinct command :grep "iggy" instead of :grep "iggy". ![]() ![]() For more information what the options above mean, check out man rg. Now when we run :grep inside Vim, it will run rg -vimgrep -smart-case -follow instead. I've used f and Ctrl-p in the past and I am currently mapping it to Ctrl-f. Pretty cool!įZF.vim file finder is best used with a mapping. Run :Files from Vim and you'll be prompted with FZF search prompt. To search for files inside Vim using FZF.vim plugin, we can use :Files method. For example, ^hello | ^welcome friends$ searches for phrase starting with either "welcome" or "hello" and ending with "friends". To search for phrase containing "welcome" and not "friends", we can use welcome !friends To search for either "friends" or "foes", we can use friends | foes. To search for phrase "welcome my friends", we do 'welcome my friends. To search for phrase ending with "my friends", we do friends$. To search for phrase starting with "welcome", we do ^welcome. Fortunately for us, there aren't many to learn. Let's go over syntax so we can search more efficiently. Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen modeįor more info, you can check out this README page from FZF.vim repo. ![]()
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