Re: Why SlickEdit is superior to VIM and Emacs combined!

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:56:37 -0700, Antony Scriven wrote:

> Jahagirdar Vijayvithal S wrote:
>
> > Post made at the risk of being apprehended for feeding
> > the trolls.
> >
> > * nospam <no@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > of doing this! Vim really does need an internal grep -- BADLY.
> > >
> > Really? Ok here goes
> > :h grep
> > {start data from vims help file}
> > 5. Using :vimgrep and :grep *grep* *lid*
>
> I wasn't going to mention that because you'll need to get
> vim7.0a from CVS to use it.
>
> Antony


Yes, that proves my point entirely. Vim currently does not
have an internal grep. I personally edit numerous config
files on remote hosts, and need to grep through them, and
then be able to select matches from the list, and goto
those lines. Similar to :copen.

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