Fast 'Find in Files' for VIM?

Question

What are some options for getting really fast \'Find in Files\' searching in VIM?

Our codebase is large enough that searching needs to work off an index. grep/vimgrep/et

Answer 1

If you're working with a large codebase, then it might be time to look for a more powerful solution than conventional tools. OpenGrok is a very fast source code search and cross-reference engine. On top of its great performance, it integrates with Subversion, Mercurial, and ClearCase, among other source revision control software. It sounds a lot like something you could use.

If you want support to use OpenGrok from within Vim, you could easily write a vim function that would call system() to start the search for you. To read more about writing new vim commands, look up :help 40.2 within vim.

I hope that's what you were looking for.