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vimgrep alias

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I’ve been using Solaris recently… since yesterday. First reactions: How can anyone use their command line tools!?

Fortunately the system I was on had zsh and vim.

Here is a macro I use to avoid Solaris grep:

    function vimgrep () { tmp="$@" ; vim -c "vimgrep $tmp | copen" ; }

(I could not figure out a way to do it w/o the tmp variable)

Now you can do things like:

    vimgrep pattern 'dir/**/*.c'
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