vi(m) wrapper

Do you find yourself doing a grep -rn through a code base looking for an given log line or function call, then doing a quick vi <file>.src followed by a :382 to jump to the relevant line?

Wouldn't it be nicer if you could just open that line directly using the grep -rn output?

The vi wrapper script intends to do exactly that, a shorthand and intuitive way to open files.

Any of the below should work as you would expect:

$ vi file.ext
$ vi file.ext:23
$ vi file.ext-24
$ vi file.ext 23
$ vi file.ext:23:	if [ ...
$ vi file.ext-24-		local ...

Also feel free to rename the function vim if you are more familiar typing that.

If you like this then you may want to check out the less equivalent less-wrapper.

Example use case

[bash@marklet:~/]
$ grep -rn _VI_WRAPPER_BIN bashmarklets/
bashmarklets/vi-wrapper/vi_wrapper.inc:7:	if [ ! -z "${_VI_WRAPPER_BIN}" ]; then
bashmarklets/vi-wrapper/vi_wrapper.inc:8:		local VI=${_VI_WRAPPER_BIN}

[bash@marklet:~/]
$ vi bashmarklets/vi-wrapper/vi_wrapper.inc:8:

How to install

Either download/clone this repository and add the following to your ~/.bashrc file:

source path/to/vi_wrapper.inc

or alternatively just copy-paste the function directly into your ~/.bashrc file.

NB: The source approach is recommended if you end up picking up more than one of these bookmarklets as it avoids clutter.