VimAck: A port of TextMate's Find-in-Project feature for MacVim.app

by jtaby • 15 years ago

51 32 15 years ago

jarin• 15 years ago

That is pretty nice, although I found myself using 'git grep' even with Textmate (before I switched to vim) because it was much faster than TM's Find in Project.

beaumartinez• 15 years ago

From the screencast[1] it looks like this doesn't support keyboard navigation―why is the search an OS-native window and not a Vim window?

[1] https://github.com/jtaby/VimAck/raw/master/resources/vimack_...

dchest• 15 years ago

I use ack.vim, which outputs to vim's quickfix window: https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim

jtaby6• 15 years ago

As I noted in the roadmap, keyboard support is coming, feel free to fork and contribute if you're up to it in the meantime :)

spicycode2• 15 years 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

jtaby6• 15 years 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.

smosher2• 15 years 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?

spicycode2• 15 years ago

It puts the results in a quickfix window, which has a well-defined set of keybindings for navigation and refinement.

beatlevic5• 15 years ago

I would love to see this feature implemented in a similar way for Emacs.

alnayyir6• 15 years ago

Already exists in the form of ack mode, which is better integrated with the editor.

https://github.com/defunkt/emacs/blob/master/vendor/ack.el

http://nschum.de/src/emacs/full-ack/

There are others, but this should suit anybody's needs.

Edited to provide examples.

jroes• 15 years ago

Defunkt has actually ported a lot of cool textmate features including find-in-project over here in textmate.el: https://github.com/defunkt/textmate.el/

jtaby6• 15 years ago

Adding support for other editors was something I am definitely mulling over, maybe version 2

alnayyir6• 15 years ago

We (emacs) already have like 5-6 ack modes, I beg of you, don't add to the list. Just find which one you like best and offer improvements.

zefhous• 15 years ago

This is a great start!

I have ack.vim installed, but I frequently open the project in TextMate to search with TM's AckMate bundle. Project search one of the last things with Vim that I haven't had a good solution to.

ack.vim works, but it blocks vim so you can't do anything while it's working, and also the quickfix window is not ideal for a lot of uses.

shennyg• 15 years ago

Nice work.

A few notes:

"Button" label should say search or go.

There is no "results not found"

It is hard to tell if it is doing anything, maybe add a animated icon showing it is working.

jtaby6• 15 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, I'm going to prioritize those features for the next release :)

fictorial• 15 years ago

Nice work. I am using lusty juggler's buffer grep right now for something similar.

askedrelic• 15 years ago

Yea, I just found LustyBufferGrep and BufferJuggler this weekend and am definitely digging it.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890

mrinterweb• 15 years ago

This looks nice, but I prefer the functionality provided in vim. In your .vimrc, you can set grepprg to ack, grep, or (my favorite super fast search) git grep. Then if you want to display the results just type ":copen".

Example: "set grepprg=git\ grep\ -n"

burgerbrain• 15 years ago

I've used the following in Vim for years now:

  :nmap <C-f> :!ack <cword><CR>

No sense in being any more complex than that, as far as I can tell.

jtaby6• 15 years ago

Well, the reason I built this is that it's much nicer to browse the results IMO. You can collapse files, you get bolded fonts, you get different colors, and much better use of whitespace. It's also easier to define options like regex and case-sensitivity vs. having to remember the flags in the command.

The benefit is one of UI/UX, it doesn't actually perform an action you couldn't perform text-only.

gte910h• 15 years ago

Thank you for this. This has definitely been a "missed feature" for awhile now.

VimAck: A port of TextMate's Find-in-Project feature for MacVim.app

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