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created September 13, 2001 · complexity intermediate · author Manish Tehanguria · version 6.0


Searching for a word across the project wastes most of the developres time, which can be avoided by the use of GNU Id_utils with VIM.

The procedure needs to be followed is as follows:

download GNU idutils 3.2d (mkid,lid,fid,fnid,xtokid) from http://www.mossbayeng.com/~ron/vim/builds.html

uncompress and store these files in the directory from where Vim is running.

goto the top level directory of the project, and run mkid, it will create ID file in that directory (As it is time consuming process, so be patient). copy this file ID to the directory from where Vim is running.

USAGE:

Put these lines in your vimrc:

map _u :call ID_search()<Bar>execute "/\\<" . g:word . "\\>"<CR>
map _n :n<Bar>execute "/\\<" . g:word . "\\>"<CR>
function ID_search()
 let g:word = expand("<cword>")
 let x = system("lid --key=none ". g:word)
 let x = substitute(x, "\n", " ", "g")
 execute "next " . x
endfun

To use it, place the cursor on a word, type "_u" and Vim will load the file that contains the word. Search for the next occurrence of the word in the same file with "n". Go to the next file with "_n".

The mapping of "_u" and "_n" can be done to some other key as per your preference but I use ^K and ^L for this purpose.

Comments[]

I haven't been able to get this to work. I downloaded and compiled the program (from here now: http://www.gnu.org/software/idutils/) and it made the ID file. But I got the following error when I'd search:

E79: Cannot expand wildcards


I'm not really certain what problem this tip tries to solve, but here are some potential alternatives:

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