vim 'n' lynx: command line option to search for string

Samsara · 08-23-2003, 07:50 PM

Hi All!

I've looked at man and info pages, but can't figure out how to pass an argument to lynx and vim on the command line that will highlight all occurences of a given string. I'm thinking something like

vim --search-string=highlightme $foo.txt
lynx --search-string=highlightme $foo.html

Can this be done? Any alternatives?

Thanks,

Samsara

martinman · 08-23-2003, 08:24 PM

in vim you can search by typing "/ searchterm"

Samsara · 08-23-2003, 08:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by martinman
in vim you can search by typing "/ searchterm"

Yeah, sorry I should have mentioned that. I want to do it from the command line, because I have a lot of files to go through and a fetish for automating things

Cheers,

Samsara

seabass55 · 08-23-2003, 09:31 PM

have you tried grep?

Samsara · 08-24-2003, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by seabass55
have you tried grep?

Oh, I use grep lots, but it's not the same: for instance, in grep you can't tell whether something is a tab or a space, if you see what I mean... grep is really good for predictable situations, e.g. where you know exactly how many context lines you will need, but you won't always have that prior information.

Thanks anyway,

Samsara