[SOLVED] How do you search all source code in Vim?

Issue

When using Vim, and given a directory filled with code (e.g. ~/trunk/) with a number of sub-directories, is there a way to grep/search for instances of text/regexes across the entire source code?

At the moment I use:

:lcd ~/trunk
:grep "pattern" *.py */*.py */*/*.py */*/*/*.py

(Obviously I'm limiting this to Python files, which is a different issue, but it's noteworthy that ideally I'd like to limit the searches to files with specific extensions.)

Solution

:vimgrep "pattern" ~/trunk/**/*.py
:copen 20

If you have quite a big project I'd recommend to you to use cscope and vim plugins. Here is one designed to handle big projects: SourceCodeObedience

There is a brief description of how to grep text using SourceCodeObedience.

Answered By - Mykola Golubyev