This is a vim plugin that helps you interact with CodeSearch.

The goal is to index the contents of all source files within a working directory, and therefore being able to run instantaneous search queries.

Installation

If you have the Pathogen plugin installed or any other plugin manager, then just copy this filetree into a subfolder of your Bundle folder.

The use of this plugin requires the binaries of CodeSearch. Use go get github.com/junkblocker/codesearch/cmd/... to build them.

Use

Prior to using the plugin you need to know:

• Where your source files are located
• What command can list the files to index
• Where csearch and cindex binaries are stored

Example with the sources of SQLite:

• Checkout sources using fossil:

  • cd /tmp && mkdir SQLite && cd SQLite
  • fossil clone https://sqlite.org/src bare_repository
  • mkdir index
  • mkdir worktree && cd worktree && fossil open ../bare_repository

• Declare your index. You need four arguments:

  1. Storage directory for the index
  2. Directory for your worktree
  3. Command listing files when inside the worktree
  4. Directory for the csearch and cindex binaries

  :call codesearchindex#declareindex('/tmp/index', '/tmp/SQLite/worktree', 'fossil ls', '/opt/codesearch/bin')

  or:

  :DeclareIndex /tmp/index /tmp/SQLite/worktree fossil\ ls /opt/codesearch/bin

  You can make helpers for this command when you intend to work on SQLite.

• Run a first-time indexation: :MkIndex

• Perform a search: :SearchExprInIndex write.*page

• Fill your clipboard with “as follows:”, then use :SearchFromRegisterInIndex + (if your + register is associated with clipboard)

I use (among others) the following mappings:

" Use F2 for case-sensitive search, F3 for case-insensitive search
" F2 or F3 on a word: word lookup in index
" F2 or F3 in visual mode: lookup for highlighted text
" Shift-F2 or Shift-F3: lookup for text in clipboard

nnoremap <F2>     :SearchWordInIndex <C-R><C-W><Return>
nnoremap <F3>     :SearchWordInIndex! <C-R><C-W><Return>

xnoremap <F2>     "zy:SearchFromRegisterInIndex z<Return>
xnoremap <F3>     "zy:SearchFromRegisterInIndex! z<Return>

nnoremap <S-F2>   :SearchFromRegisterInIndex +<Return>
nnoremap <S-F3>   :SearchFromRegisterInIndex! +<Return>

Development

The main git repository for this plugin is at http://github.com/salsifis/vim-codesearchindex

License

zlib/libpng license.

Copyright (c) 2020 Benoit Mortgat

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

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