GrepIt - Yet another grep wrapper

Author: Andreas Andersson - [email protected]

GrepIt is a simple wrapper around Vims internal grep command that helps you grep in all files for a language. For example if the current file is a .h file, and you execute:

:GrepIt hello

All files ending in h,cpp,cc,c,mm will be grepped for the string "hello". This saves you typing a lot of --include=*.xyz for each search for something.

But, the real magic happens when you make a keyboard short to search for the word under the cursor. See Configuration below.

Installation

Install using Vim's built-in package manager by cloning directly into your users start package folder:

mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/<username>/start
cd ~/.vim/pack/<username>/start
git clone https://github.com/derwiath/vim-grepit.git

It's of course possible to install it using any other package manager.

Configuration

GrepIt is preconfigured with a language map for C, C++ and Objetive C/C++.

You custom language language map should be named g:grepit_lang_map. It's a simple mapping of language to string with comma separated extensions.

This is how the default lang_map looks:

let g:grepit_lang_map = {
  \ "cpp" : "h,inl,cpp,cc,c,m,mm" ,
  \ }

I recommend that you connect GrepItOperator function to a keyboard shortcut in your .vimrc:

nnoremap <silent> <Leader>f :set operatorfunc=GrepItOperator<CR>g@
vnoremap <silent> <Leader>f :<c-u>call GrepItOperator(visualmode())<CR>

In visual mode this maps <Leader>f to GrepIt so that you can search for whatever you have selected. In normal mode you search for whatever movement operator you pass it, for instance press <Leader>fiw to search for the word the cursor are on.

The searched for needle is highligted, just like if you were to press * with the cursor placed over a word. This can be disabled with g:grepit_hlsearch in your .vimrc

let g:grepit_hlsearch = 0

Undocumented configs

let g:grepit_open_quickfix = 1 " or 0
let g:grepit_goto_first_match = 0 " or 1

Commands

GrepIt comes with a few built in commands. Here follows a brief description of each.

GrepIt

Usage:

:GrepIt <needle>

Searches recursively for needle in files mapping to the language of current file. If no language for current file is defined, files with the same extension is searched.

Example, to search for hello world in the current language:

:GrepIt hello world

You can also pass regexp down to grep:

:GrepIt \bhello\b

GrepItExts

Usage:

GrepItExts <extensions> <needle>

Searches recursively for needle in files with specified extensions. The extensions parameter is a comma separated list of extensions (excluding dots)

Example, to search for hello in all .lua and .py files:

:GrepItExts py,lua hello

GrepItLangs

Usage:

GrepItLangs <languages> <needle>

Searches recursively for needle in files mapping to the specified languages. The languages parameter is a comma separated list of language names. If a specified language fails to match any in the current lang_map, the language is interpreted as an extension instead.

Example, to search for hello in all C++ related AND .py files:

:GrepItLangs  cpp,py 'hello'

Note that by default, 'cpp' matches the cpp language (h,inl,cpp,cc,c,m,mm) and 'py' maps the extension py only. This is, of course, because the lang_map contains no 'py' language.