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tlack on Aug 27, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Extreme Productivity with Screen and Vim

Any reason you're using :!grep rather than the built in ctags support? I've found the latter to be very useful but maybe I'm missing some functionality.

slmbrhrt on Aug 27, 2010 [–]

Most of the time I'm not searching for function definitions across the whole base. This is just an example.

That, and I haven't really fooled around with ctags much, though I've been meaning to for the longest time. No time like the present, I guess.

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