In my project regression settings, output file have statement like
"diff between foo.txt and bar.txt found"
Now I need to take vimdiff between foo.txt and bar.txt. Can I do it from output file opened in vim only?
currently I need to first open my output file in vim. Then I need to select line specifying diff found. after it return to shell. then take vimdiff b/w this files.
You can do it without opening any new vim instance using the following function:
function s:OpenDiff()
let line=getline('.')
let match=matchlist(line, '\v^\ {4}\"diff\ between\ (.{-})\ and\ (.{-})\ found\"\ $')[1:2]
if empty(match)
throw 'Incorrect line:' line
endif
execute 'tabedit' fnameescape(match[0])
execute 'diffsplit' fnameescape(match[1])
endfunction
nnoremap ,od :<C-u>call <SID>OpenDiff()<CR>
If you add set bufhidden=wipe after each of execute statements you will be able to get rid of opened buffers by running :tabclose.
If you had no file opened or an unmodified buffer:
:edit file1.txt
:vert diffsplit file2.txt
To open diffs in a new tab,
:tabedit file1.txt
:vert diffsplit file2.txt
would be very convenient
To get things automated, I'd consider
diffprogram | grep -w '^diff between' | grep 'found$' |
while read diff between file1 and file2 found;
do
gvim -d "$file1" "$file2"
done
Notes:
doesn't work for filenames with speciall characters (notably whitespace)
To open all these vims simultaneously, just add &: gvim -d "$file1" "$file2"&
You can also get all diffs to open in separate tabs in a single vim:
gvim --servername GVIM --remote-silent +"tabedit $file1" +"vert diffsplit $file2"
Related
I want to open up multiple files in different tabs and search for the same word in all of them. Then I want to jump to the first occurrence of the found word in each file.
Doing this works, but it doesn't jump to the first occurrence:
gvim -p -cmd "/word" file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 file6 file7
I need to manually press 'n' to go to the next match.
Vim doesn't provide a way to execute a command for every file on the command line. The -c option causes the command to be executed after the first file is read, and --cmd happens before any files are opened.
If you want to do this, you'd probably need to define a script with a function that did that (say, Search), load the script with -S, and then execute it with --remote-send option. On many systems, gvim starts up with a default server name by default, but if it doesn't, you'd need to use --servername with your initial process.
Alternatively, you could do this from the command line with grep, which would be more flexible, but of course wouldn't appear in an editor.
Since you're opening the files in separate tab pages, you can use :help :tabdo to execute the search in every page.
If it's okay to just go to the line of the first match, you can directly do the search via :/:
vim -p -c 'tabdo /word/' file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 file6 file7
To also go to the beginning of the first match within the line, we need something like this, using normal mode n:
vim -p -c "/word" -c 'tabdo 1normal! n' file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 file6 file7
You might be interested in :grep and :vimgrep, which populate the quickfix list:
$ gvim file*
:vimgrep /pattern/ ##
The ## means search the argument list, which you can view with :args. It’s what :next and :prev use.
Now, you can navigate the searches with :cnext and :cprev; or, you can open the quickfix window :copen and hit enter on any line.
You could still pop open all the files in tabs with :cfdo tabedit but at this point it might not be necessary!
I am trying to indent multiple files with vim. Can I do this without manually opening the files one by one? The following is not working:
for f in `ls`; do vim -c 'gg=G' -c 'wq' $f; done
Is there a way to execute a Vim command on a file from the command line?
I know the opposite is true like this:
:!python %
But what if I wanted to :retab a file without opening it in Vim? For example:
> vim myfile.c
:retab | wq
This will open myfile.c, replace the tabs with spaces, and then save and close. I'd like to chain this sequence together to a single command somehow.
It would be something like this:
> vim myfile.c retab | wq
This works:
gvim -c "set et|retab|wq" foo.txt
set et (= set expandtab) ensures the tab characters get replaced with the correct number of spaces (otherwise, retab won't work).
I don't normally use it, but vim -c ... also works
The solution as given above presumes the default tab stop of eight is appropriate. If, say, a tab stop of four is intended, use the command sequence "set ts=4|set et|retab|wq".
You have several options:
-c "commands" : will play Ex commands as you entered them in the command line.
In your example : vim myfile -c 'retab | wq'. This is what Firstrock suggested.
-S "vim source file" : will source given vim script
(like running vim -c "source 'vim source file'"):
If you have a file script.vim containing:
retab
wq
Then you can use vim myfile.c -s script.vim (the extension does not really matter)
-s "scriptin file": will play contents of file as it contains normal mode commands: If you have script.txt containing:
:retab
ZZ
with end of lines consisting of a single ^M character (for example you saved the script using the :set fileformat=mac | w), then you can run: vim myfile.c -S script.txt (ZZ is another way to exit vim and save current file).
Note that you can record those scripts with vim my_file -W script.txt, but it suffers a bug if you happen to use gvim (the GUI).
Not a direct answer to your question, but if you want to replace tabs with spaces (or do any other regex search/replace) for a list of files, you can just use in-place sed search/replace:
sed -i 's/\t/ /g' foo1.txt foo2.txt
or
ls *.txt | xargs sed -i 's/\t/ /g'
(In this example I am replacing each tab character with three spaces.)
NOTE: the -i flag means operate in-place.
From the sed man page:
-i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX]
edit files in place (makes backup if extension
supplied)
I want to get automatically to the positions of the results in Vim after grepping, on command line. Is there such feature?
Files to open in Vim on the lines given by grep:
% grep --colour -n checkWordInFile *
SearchToUser.java:170: public boolean checkWordInFile(String word, File file) {
SearchToUser.java~:17: public boolean checkWordInFile(String word, File file) {
SearchToUser.java~:41: if(checkWordInFile(word, f))
If you pipe the output from grep into vim
% grep -n checkWordInFile * | vim -
you can put the cursor on the filename and hit gF to jump to the line in that file that's referenced by that line of grep output. ^WF will open it in a new window.
From within vim you can do the same thing with
:tabedit
:r !grep -n checkWordInFile *
which is equivalent to but less convenient than
:lgrep checkWordInFile *
:lopen
which brings up the superfantastic quickfix window so you can conveniently browse through search results.
You can alternatively get slower but in-some-ways-more-flexible results by using vim's native grep:
:lvimgrep checkWordInFile *
:lopen
This one uses vim REs and paths (eg allowing **). It can take 2-4 times longer to run (maybe more), but you get to use fancy \(\)\#<=s and birds of a feather.
Have a look at "Grep search tools integration with Vim" and "Find in files within Vim". Basically vim provides these commands for searching files:
:grep
:lgrep
:vimgrep
:lvimgrep
The articles feature more information regarding their usage.
You could do this:
% vim "+/checkWordInFile" $(grep -l checkWordInFile *)
This will put in the vim command line a list of all the files that match the regex. The "+/..." option will tell vim to search from the start of each file until it finds the first line that matches the regex.
Correction:
The +/... option will only search the first file for the regex. To search in every file you need this:
% vim "-c bufdo /checkWordInFile" $(grep -l checkWordInFile *)
If this is something you need to do often you could write a bash function so that you only need to specify the regex once (assuming that the regex is valid for both grep and vim).
I think this is what you are looking for:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2184
When you open a file:line, for instance when coping and pasting from an error from your compiler (or grep output) vim tries to open a file with a colon in its name. With this little script in your plugins folder if the stuff after the colon is a number and a file exists with the name especified before the colon vim will open this file and take you to the line you wished in the first place.
It's definitely what I was looking for.
I highly recommend ack.vim over grep for this functionality.
http://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim
http://betterthangrep.com/
You probably want to make functions for these. :)
Sequential vim calls (console)
grep -rn "implements" app | # Or any (with "-n") you like
awk '{
split($0,a,":"); # split on ":"
print "</dev/tty vim", a[1], "+" a[2] # results in lines with "</dev/tty vim <foundfile> +<linenumber>
}' |
parallel --halt-on-error 1 -j1 --tty bash -ec # halt on error and "-e" important to make it possible to quit in the middle
Use :cq from vim to stop editing.
Concurrent opening in tabs (gvim)
Start the server:
gvim --servername GVIM
Open the tabs:
grep -rn "implements" app | # again, any grep you like (with "-n")
awk "{ # double quotes because of $PWD
split(\$0,a,\":\"); # split on ":"
print \":tabedit $PWD/\" a[1] \"<CR>\" a[2] \"G\" # Vim commands. Open file, then jump to line
}" |
parallel gvim --servername GVIM --remote-send # of course the servername needs to match
If you use git, results are often more meaningful when you search only in the files tracked by git. To open files at the given line which is a search result of git grep in vim you will need the fugitive plugin, then
:copen
:Ggrep pattern
Will give you the list in a buffer and you can choose to open files from your git grep results.
In this particular example:
vim SearchToUser.java +170
I was wondering if there's a way to see the output of any command,
straight inside vim, rather than first redirecting it into a file and
then opening that file.
E.x. I need something like
$ gvim < diff -r dir1/ dir2/
This gives ambiguous redirect error message
I just want to see the diffs between dir1 and dir2 straight inside
gvim.
Can any one provide a nice hack?
diff file1 file2 | vim -R -
The -R makes it read-only so you don't accidentally modify the input (which may or may not be your desired behavior). The single dash tells vim to reads its input over standard input. Works for other commands, too.
Also, when already in Vim:
:r! diff file1 file2
vim -d file1 file2
Although I would also suggest vimdiff or vim -d for the case of looking at a diff, I just have to share this (more general) approach for using vim usage in pipes: vipe (from the moreutils package in Ubuntu).
For example:
find -name '*.png' | vipe | xargs rm
would allow you to first edit (in vim) the list of .png files found before passing it to xargs rm.
jst use gvimdiff instead
or vimdiff
to paste the output of a command straight into vim, for example ls, try
:%r!ls
BTW, there is a DirDiff plugin.
You can do this with
diff -r dir1/ dir2/ | gvim -
the '-' option to vim (or gvim) tells vim to open STDIN
I often use vimdiff -g <file1> <file2>
One of the most simple and convenient ways is to do it like this:
vimdiff -R <file1> <file2>
Again the '-R' flag is to open it for read-only mode to avoid any accidental changes.
What you are looking for is called process substitution:
vim <(diff -r dir1/ dir2/)
But the DirDiff plugin mentioned by Luc is much more useful for comparing directories.