Global Search in vim

Search through multiples files is a pain in neck, in applications like Sublime Text you can use the "find in files" option (command-shift-F), but you can do that in vim too, using the :lvim command.

:lvim /seach/gj ./**/*.html

Here is a wrapper function to make it more user friendly:

function! GlobalSeach()
 let text = escape(input("what do you want to seach?: "), '\\/')
 if text == ""
 echo "" | return
 endif
 let extension = escape(input("Wich extension? (* for all): "), '\\/')
 if extension == ""
 echo "" | return
 endif

 let search_command = ':lvim /\V' . text . '/gj ./**/*.' . extension
 try
 execute search_command 
 catch
 echo "Nothing found"
 return
 endtry

 lwindow
endfunction

""" mapping the function to leader-shift-f
noremap <leader>F :call GlobalSeach() <CR>