Question

In a shell I use the following function to create a filelist and pass it to vim.

Feels alright, but I lost the line reference, I open the files in correct order but then I have to search again for the text as the cursor starts at first line.

Actual function on ~/.bashrc

function vimgrep(){
   vim `grep -IR "$1" * | awk -F: '$1!=f{print ""$1"";f=$1}' | grep -v 'Test\|test'` +ls
}

function vimgrep2(){
   vim `grep -IR "$1" * | awk -F: '$1!=f{print ""$1"";f=$1}' ` +ls
}

Obs.: filelist must come from shell to vim, and then it must keep the line reference of the buffered files, just like with the results of :make when it catches any error (but without the bottom window [:cwindow]).

edited:
Ok… not so elegant, but I could pass the searched string to vim as +/”$1″, like:

   vim `grep -IR "$1" * | awk -F: '$1!=f{print ""$1"";f=$1}' ` +/"$1"

Would be better if the script doesn’t use a temporary file.

Answer 1

Vim also comes with a vimgrep command you could use

function vimgrep() {
    local regex="$1"

    if [[ -z "$regex" ]]; then
        echo "Usage: $0 regex" 1>&2
        exit 1
    fi

    vim -c "vimgrep /$regex/ **"
}

Be careful of running it in a directory with a lot of files below it.