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FIND FILES VIA COMMAND E VIM HOW TO
FIND FILES VIA COMMAND E VIM INSTALL
FIND FILES VIA COMMAND E VIM UPDATE
FIND FILES VIA COMMAND E VIM PLUS

I will cover the substitute command in more depth in a later chapter.

FIND FILES VIA COMMAND E VIM UPDATE

The update command saves each file after substitution. In this case, your command is the substitution command %s/pizza/donut/g.

:cfdo executes any command you pass to all files in your quickfix list.

:grep pizza uses ripgrep to search for all instances of "pizza" (by the way, this would still work even if you didn't reassign grepprg to use ripgrep.

If you want to replace all instances of "pizza" with "donut", here's what you do: The first method is to replace all matching phrases in your project. In this section, I will show you two different methods to easily do that in Vim. Modern text editors like VSCode makes it very easy to search and replace a string across multiple files.

You may need to use :grep in Vim to do search and replace in multiple files, which I will cover next.

FIND FILES VIA COMMAND E VIM PLUS

You might wonder, "Well, this is nice but I never used :grep in Vim, plus can't I just use :Rg to find phrases in files? When will I ever need to use :grep? Just like the old :grep, this new :grep also uses quickfix to display results. If you want to search for "donut" using ripgrep, you can now run a more succinct command :grep "donut" instead of :grep "donut". Set grepprg=rg\ -vimgrep\ -smart-case\ -followįeel free to modify some of the options above! For more information on what the options above mean, check out man rg.Īfter you updated grepprg, now when you run :grep, it runs rg -vimgrep -smart-case -follow instead of grep. Since you will be using this command frequently, it is good to have this mapped to a keyboard shortcut. Run :Files from Vim and you will be prompted with fzf search prompt. To search for files inside Vim using fzf.vim plugin, you can use the :Files method. For example, ^hello | ^welcome friends$ will search for the phrase starting with either "welcome" or "hello" and ending with "friends". To search for phrase containing "welcome" and not "friends": welcome !friends

To search for either "friends" or "foes": friends | foes. To search for the phrase "welcome my friends": 'welcome my friends. To search for a phrase ending with "my friends": friends$. To search for a phrase starting with "welcome": ^welcome. To use fzf efficiently, you should learn some basic fzf syntax.

FIND FILES VIA COMMAND E VIM INSTALL

In our case, it will install fzf.vim and fzf.įor more info about this plugin, you can check out fzf.vim repo. It will install all plugins that are defined in your vimrc file and are not installed. Plug 'junegunn/fzf', Īfter adding these lines, you will need to open vim and run :PlugInstall. Together, they make a powerful search tool combination.įzf does not use ripgrep by default, so we need to tell fzf to use ripgrep by defining a FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND variable. You can use it with any commands, including ripgrep. Fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder. It is generally faster than grep and has many useful features.

Ripgrep is a search tool much like grep (hence the name). The commands fzf and rg should now be available after successful installs. Follow the instruction on their github repo. Setupįirst, make sure you have fzf and ripgrep downloaded.

FIND FILES VIA COMMAND E VIM HOW TO

In this second half of the chapter, I will show you how to use fzf.vim to make searching in Vim easy and powerful. One thing that modern text editors get right and that Vim didn't is how easy it is to find files, especially via fuzzy search. Now that you've learned how to search files in Vim with built-in tools, let's learn how to do it with plugins. If you're looking for a different file explorer, NERDTree is a good alternative. If you find netrw too bland and need more flavor, vim-vinegar is a good plugin to improve netrw.