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The vim 'scriptnames' command output all scripts loaded. The problem is that I can't find any practical way to filter/search/find on it. I want to look for some script without having to do this by "eye brute force".
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You can search/edit here using regular vim commands. You start in Normal mode. Press Enter to execute a command. This approach lets you search across whole command not just beginning of line. Enter the first letters of your previous command and push <Up> arrow (or Ctrl+p).
To see the file names of all scripts loaded (sourced) by Vim, including those loaded implicitly at startup, enter: The list does not include "would-be scripts" (scripts that Vim tried to open but which failed without warning, perhaps because the script could not be found).
To search forward, use the command: Replace pattern with the item (s) you want to find. For example, to search for all instances of the pattern "root", you would: 1. Press Esc to make sure Vim/Vi is in normal mode. 2. Type the command:
Searching for all characters as normal text Place the following in your vimrc : command! -nargs=1 SS let @/ = '\V'.escape (<q-args>, '\') to define a new command SS which allows easy searching for text which includes characters that normally have a special meaning in a search pattern.
There is no such thing as a script command, there are only scriptencoding and scriptnames (which can be abbreviated as scr, according to :h :scr). I presume you're looking for scriptnames.
With Vim 8 you can filter the results of most commands with :filter:
:filter /pattern/ scriptnames
(cf. :h :filter).
With older versions of Vim you can redirect all messages to a file before running :scriptnames, then cancel the redirection:
:redir >file
:scriptnames
:redir END
(cf. :h :redir). Alternatively, you can redirect messages to a register, then paste the contents of the register to a buffer:
:redir @a
:scriptnames
:redir END
:new
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Finally, Tim Pope's plugin scriptease adds a command :Scriptnames that runs :scriptnames and loads the results into a quickfix list.
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Instead of :redir, we have execute() with recent versions of vim.
Thus, you can play with :echo filter(split(execute('scritnames'), "\n"), 'v:val =~ "somepattern") or :new+put=execute(':scriptnames')+search in the buffer as you would have explored a log life.
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