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Working with Grep and Vim

The demo: [asciinema][1]

This workflow is in thanks to [a Reddit post by romainl][2].

Opening grep results directly in Vim

Sometimes, you just want to know where a string is found. In these cases, a simple

FZF and Text Editors

Because of the Unix-like nature of FZF (list through stdin, selection through stdout), it's very easy to come up with different uses for it.

One of my personal favorites is to select files to open in my text editor. Most basic would be:

$ vim "$(fzf)"

Vim and Definitions

Did you know Vim has a few builtin features designed to help with the "Jump to Definition" action you see in most IDEs?

Level 1: include and define

Since Vim is a "dumb" editor (that is, it doesn't do any static analysis on your text), you'd expect a "Jump to Definition" feature that relies on a simple text search.

	function! TemplateReplace() abort
	if expand('%') =~ glob2regpat('*.js')
	" do JS-specific replacement
	elseif expand('%') =~ glob2regpat('*.sh')
	" do sh-specific replacement
	endif
	endfunction

	augroup TemplateLite
	autocmd!

	augroup IncSearch
	autocmd!

	autocmd CmdLineEnter [/\?] set nohlsearch
	autocmd CmdLineLeave [/\?] set hlsearch
	augroup END

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Depends on inotifywait, from inotify-tools

	# Usage: watchrun dir... -- command...
	# e.g. watchrun src -- ctags -a

	dirs=()
	until [[ $1 == -- ]]; do
	dirs+=("$1")

	{
	"lint": {
	"compiler": "eslint"
	},
	"build": {
	"makeprg": "adb shell input keyevent 82"
	},
	"tags": {
	"makeprg": "es-ctags -R src"
	}

	aur() {
	aurget "$@" && aurinstall "$@"
	}

	aurdeps() {
	aurget "$@" && aurinstall --asdeps "$@"
	}

	reaur() {
	aurupdate "$@" && aurinstall "$@"

	watchdir() {
	inotifywait -rme modify --format '%w%f' "$1"
	}

	#compdef aurclean

	_files -W "${AUR_DIR:-$HOME/.aur}"