Vim has a built-in feature to search over multiple files in a directory (even recursively across the sub-directories).
Vim can use external applications (e.g. grep) to do the search, but as I’m using currently a portable version of Gvim, I’m more-or-less forced to use the built in search functionality. The general command look like:
:vim[grep][!] /{pattern}/[g][j] {file}
The [g] option tells vim to count all matches in a line, not just the first one. If the [j] option is given vim won’t jump to the first match in the file.
For a recursive search use **.
:vimgrep /solve/j **/*.gms
Vim puts all matches to the “quickfix list” that can be opened with the command
:cw
This command splits the buffer to two windows (viewports). Below you will find the quickfix list with file names and the lines where a match was found. Just hit RET and the selected file will be loaded in the upper window.
