skwp / greplace.vim

Global search and replace for VI

VIM Plugin for doing a search and replace across many files.

About this plugin

Original plugin by Yegappan Lakshmanan http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1813

Modifications by Yan Pritzker:

• Always grep recursive
• Silence the search so you don't get a gigantic scroll list

Usage

1. Use :Gsearch to get a buffer window of your search results
2. then you can make the replacements inside the buffer window using traditional tools (%s/foo/bar/)
3. Invoke :Greplace to make your changes across all files. It will ask you interatively y/n/a - you can hit 'a' to do all.
4. Save changes to all files with :wall (write all)

Customization

To customize command used for :Gsearch you can update both the command and the default options.

Note: updating grepprg will have consequences on other commands that rely on grep vim command

• git grep

  set grepprg=git\ grep
  
  let g:grep_cmd_opts = '--line-number'
  

• ag

  set grepprg=ag
  
  let g:grep_cmd_opts = '--line-numbers --noheading'
  

• ack

  set grepprg=ack
  
  let g:grep_cmd_opts = '--noheading'