Table of Contents Tip 110: Grep with Vim's Internal Search Engine References: Search in File, Then Search in Project Search History and `:vimgrep`

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• When multiple matches are on the same line, the presence of the `g` flag creates a match for each one of them. Without it, only a single record is created for the entire line.
• By default, Vim will jump straight to the first match, but you can prevent this by including the `j` flag.
• The `{file}` argument must not be blank.
• It can accept the same parameters as the `:args` command.
• `##` is expanded to represent the names of each file in the argument list.

• main advantage to using `:vimgrep`: it understands the same patterns as Vim’s search command

Example:

If the pattern field is empty, the `:vimgrep` command matches every line in every file that it looks inside.