Re: [PATCH 0/2] Teach 'git grep' about --open-files-in-pager=[<pager>]

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:48:41AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> This supports opening the results of a 'git grep' directly in a pager 
>> (where the pager can be 'vi', too).
>
> This is not an argument against your patch, but you may be interested in
> an alternate method:
>
>   git grep -n $pattern >grep.out
>   vim -q grep.out
>
> The advantage is that the editor understands the output as a "quickfix"
> list and lets you cycle through the hits (just like you might with
> compiler errors). The disadvantage is that quickfix is a vim extension,
> so "less" and stock "vi" can't do this (I imagine emacs has a similar
> feature). It's also obviously a little more typing, but you can hide it
> inside an alias quite easily.