Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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, Do you mean "M-x grep" ? I don't see the point to use "M-x grep-find". > and I often run "git grep -n" in that mode.. I always need to pass the '--no-pager' switch: "git --no-pager grep -n" since git doesn't detect that its output is sent to a 'dumb' terminal. -- Francis -- 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