Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:48:41AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> This supports opening the results of a 'git grep' directly in a pager >> (where the pager can be 'vi', too). > > This is not an argument against your patch, but you may be interested in > an alternate method: > > git grep -n $pattern >grep.out > vim -q grep.out > > The advantage is that the editor understands the output as a "quickfix" > list and lets you cycle through the hits (just like you might with > compiler errors). The disadvantage is that quickfix is a vim extension, > so "less" and stock "vi" can't do this (I imagine emacs has a similar > feature). It's also obviously a little more typing, but you can hide it > inside an alias quite easily. "M-x grep-find" mode is designed for this, and I often run "git grep -n" in that mode.. The output is dumped into a sbuffer that is used as a "quickfix list" to bring in files with hits and jump around. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html