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by spicycode 5492 days ago
Just use ack.vim [1]. It works from any vim instance and is a standard vim plugin.

[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2572
1 comments
jtaby 5492 days ago
The problem with a native vim window is that it doesn't give you much affordance in terms of UI, you can't collapse files that have a lot of matches, hard to remember options and syntax for regex/case sensitivity, etc.
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smosher 5492 days ago
The collapsing sounds like a valid complaint. The rest falls on deaf ears for this vim user.

I would expect most vim users to feel the same since those complaints are either considered features or the common barrier to entry that vim has anyway. Am I wrong?

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jtaby 5492 days ago
You can consider it a matter of preference, I suppose. I prefer having a GUI file browser over NERDTree for similar reasons as I outlined before. VimAck has the same line of thinking behind it.
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smosher 5492 days ago
Yeah, I totally get that. I'm just assuming that the average vim user is going to prefer things to work vim-native over anything else.
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spicycode 5492 days ago
It puts the results in a quickfix window, which has a well-defined set of keybindings for navigation and refinement.
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