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I find myself wanting to use vimgrep without having an open vim session. Then, I usually open a blank vim session (by calling vim from the terminal) and then, for instance, :vim /pattern/ *.tex.
I was wondering whether there is a direct way to call vimgrep from the terminal and end up with an open vim session and a populated quickfix list.
It concerns more shell than an editor. I guess, adding this to shell's profile should work
vimgrep() { $EDITOR "+vimgrep $1 $2" "+copen"; }
To call from terminal do not forget to put single quotation marks:
vimgrep '/pattern/' '*.tex'
$EDITOR to smth. else should be persecuted ;-) Seriously, any other suggestion would be even less portable.
– Matt
Nov 25 '19 at 12:59
