created 2006 · complexity basic · author Samuel Hughes · version 6.0
TO DO
- Need introduction: what is this?
- Decide what should be removed.
Update[]
A much better method to get this feature is to install the FuzzyFinder plugin. Use the function FuzzyFinderFile
with argument **/
to do a recursive search through the current directory tree.
Put the following in your vimrc so you can invoke the function by pressing F5:
nmap <F5> :FuzzyFinderFile \*\*\/<CR>
or
map <Leader>t :FufFile **/<CR>
Original tip[]
This adds capabilities similar to the cmd-t file search feature in TextMate. It uses the Find function from VimTip1234, modified to search recursively whatever directory you are in.
For example, if I am in the "~/alumni" directory and am looking for a file named "admin_controller.rb" somewhere beneath the current directory, I could type:
:Fi adm trol
where "adm" and "trol" are excerpts of "admin_controller.rb". The results will look like this:
1 ./app/controllers/admin_controller.rb 2 ./test/functional/admin_controller_test.rb Which ? (<enter>=nothing)
Then you type the number next to the file you're searching for and hit Enter.
In other words, it's searching for "*adm*trol*", the asterisks being wildcards. The wildcards replace the spaces from your original search and are also added to the beginning and end of your search keywords.
I use this map for faster access:
map ,f :Fi
The function is:
function! Find(name) let l:_name = substitute(a:name, "\\s", "*", "g") let l:list=system("find . -iname '*".l:_name."*' -not -name \"*.class\" -and -not -name \"*.swp\" | perl -ne 'print \"$.\\t$_\"'") let l:num=strlen(substitute(l:list, "[^\n]", "", "g")) if l:num < 1 echo "'".a:name."' not found" return endif if l:num != 1 echo l:list let l:input=input("Which ? (<enter>=nothing)\n") if strlen(l:input)==0 return endif if strlen(substitute(l:input, "[0-9]", "", "g"))>0 echo "Not a number" return endif if l:input<1 || l:input>l:num echo "Out of range" return endif let l:line=matchstr("\n".l:list, "\n".l:input."\t[^\n]*") else let l:line=l:list endif let l:line=substitute(l:line, "^[^\t]*\t./", "", "") execute ":e ".l:line endfunction command! -nargs=1 Find :call Find("<args>")
Comments[]
searchInRuntime.vim and script#1581 offer similar functionality.
script#2042 is a ruby/curses based plugin that is very similar to the TextMate functionality, though it won't work in gvim and has a few dependencies (listed on the project page).
Change find
to grep
, map
to \*
and you get a nice intuitive 'find references' function.
In order to avoid searching in .svn directories, I changed one line in the original function.
let l:list=system("find . -path \"*/.svn\" -prune -o -iname '*".l:_name."*' -not -name \"*.class\" -and -not -name \"*.swp\" -print | perl -ne 'print \"$.\\t$_\"'")
Alternatively you can use Vim's built-in '**' wildcard, e.g.
:edit **/adm*trol<CTRL_D>