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There are a couple of things I do not yet understand the VIM way.
One of these is searching in a project like so (using VIM in Atom):
I use CtrlP currently for file names, but what about the contents?
How can I search with a string, and then look through a list of all occurrences using VIM and/or VIM plugins?
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Using windows. Ctrl-W w to switch between open windows, and Ctrl-W h (or j or k or l ) to navigate through open windows. Ctrl-W c to close the current window, and Ctrl-W o to close all windows except the current one. Starting vim with a -o or -O flag opens each file in its own split.
From the root of your project, you can search through all your files recursively from the current directory like so: grep -R '. ad' . The -R flag is telling grep to search recursively.
Select a file or directory name and press Enter to open that file or directory. (For example :e /home/user displays the contents of that directory.) To return to the explorer window, press Ctrl-^ (usually Ctrl-6). You can also "edit" a directory to explore that directory.
I've found an even better solution for this: FZF
It simply searches through everything in your project asynchronously using the :Ag command.
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Use :grep or :vimgrep to search file contents. The results are put onto the "location list" which you can open by typing :cw Enter.
Syntax for :grep is, by default, the same as the grep(1) command:
:grep 'my pattern.*' /path/to/dir
By default it will search the current directory (:pwd). I added set autochdir to my .vimrc so my PWD always follows the file I'm editing.
The major difference between :grep and :vimgrep is that :vimgrep (:vim for short) uses Vim-compatible regular expressions, whereas :grep uses whatever regular expressions your &grepprg uses.
You can use a custom program by setting &grepprg to something different. I personally like ack which uses Perl-compatible regex.
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