vimgrep

As of Vim 7.3.570, you can use wildignore to exclude patterns with vimgrep. For example, to ignore the objd subfolder: :set wildignore+=objd/** Additional exclusions can be added by separating patterns with a comma: :set wildignore+=objd/**,obj/**,*.tmp,test.c See Vim’s help documentation for a few more details. :help wildignore

Useful commands for the quickfix list (brackets around omittable part of the commands): :cn[ext] and :cp[revious] jump to next and previous entry :cnf[ile] and :cpf[ile] jump to next and previous file (if the quickfix list is not sorted by file you could write a function that getqflist(), performs a sort and then setqflist() :cr[ewind] and … Read more