Search for a pattern in a set of files and edit the files that contain the pattern.
Project description
Given a pattern and a list of files, fvi first runs grep on the given files to find which contain the pattern, and then opens only those files in vim. Within vim use n to move to next occurrence of pattern and Ctrl-n to move to next file. vim is run with autowrite set. Any directories, unreadable files, or binary files in the file list are ignored.
If no file list is given on the command line, fvi then uses ack rather than grep to find which files contain the pattern. Generally ack will look at all regular files in the current working directory and all subdirectories, however this can be controlled using .ackrc files.
Arguments
fvi [options] pattern [file [ file … ]]
Options
- -h, --help
Show this help message and exit.
- -w, --word
Match a word.
- -i, --ignore-case
Ignore case.
- -m, --magic
Treat pattern as a vim magic or grep basic regular expression.
- -v, --very-magic
Treat pattern as a vim very magic or grep extended regular expression.
- -g, --gvim
Open files in gvim.
Installation
Runs only on Unix systems. Requires Python 2.6 or later or Python 3.2 or later. It also requires Python’s docutils. Also uses ack if available. On Redhat systems you can get them using:
sudo yum install python3 python3-setuptools python3-docutils ack
On Arch Linux, use:
sudo pacman -S python python-setuptools python-docutils ack
On Ubuntu or other Debian systems, use:
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-setuptools python3-docutils ack-grep
On Ubuntu, ack is installed with a non-standard name. You will need to modify the fvi file and replace ack with ack-grep to address this issue.
Install by running ./install. Installs both the program an its manpage. Once installed, you can get more information using:
man fvi
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