Waldo is a port of TextMate's Find-in-Project feature, designed to work with MacVim.app
The original developer of this plugin has been inactive for a few years. Here's what I had to do to get this working (in addition to his original instructions below). Note: my latest update makes this plugin compatible with pathogen (but you must still install the Waldo app first as explained below).
1-Install Xcode
First, to build this, you'll be forced to use XCode 5.0.1 or older. (5.1 disallows garbage collection & this app uses it, so you can't use Xcode 5.1.X).
If you have the latest version of Xcode like me, you'll need instructions like this on how to install multiple versions of Xcode at once: http://iosdevelopertips.com/xcode/download-and-install-older-versions-of-xcode-xcode-previous-releases.html
Here's where apple has old versions of Xcode:
https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action
2-Build the project (open Waldo.xcodeproj in Xcode and hit the "play" button)
Most likely the app will be here: ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Waldo-<hash>
My compiled Waldo.app was in this directory: ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Waldo-<hash>/Build/Products/Debug
3-If you get the "macruby.h file not found" error
add /Library/Frameworks to “Framework Search Paths" in the project settings
Add a symbolic link to help Xcode find the MacRuby.framework
cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks
sudo ln -s /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework MacRuby.framework
Once you have a Waldo.app to install you can continue with the instructions below.
- Download Waldo.zip and put the .app in your Applications folder
- Launch Waldo.app to install the Vim plugin
- Open MacVim.app and trigger Waldo using the
<leader>fmapping.
NOTE: <leader> is a programmable prefix for commands. By default, it's '' (backslash), though you can change it in your .vimrc file.
NOTE: If you do not have your .vim/ folder in your home directory, you must manually place Waldo.vim (found inside the .app package) in your .vim/plugins directory.
NOTE: Make sure you cd into directory you want to search.
- Fix crashes introduced in 0.2
- Rename "literal match" to "regex"
- Rename "case sensitive" to "ignore case"
- Code Refactoring
- Opening Waldo without specifying a project path in the command line will present an "Open" dialog
- Launch as menu item only
- Thanks to alloy for helping!
- Rename project to Waldo (previously known as VimAck)
- Auto-install vim plugin on first launch (thanks zef)
- Add support for case-sensitive searches (thanks zef)
- Add support for regex searches (thanks zef)
- Launch Waldo as a menu item (thanks ashchan)
- Perform ack subprocess on a separate thread
- Support for Sparkle.framework to ship updates automatically
- Prevent multiple instances of Waldo to open when you trigger
<leader>f
- Add history to search field
- Add ignore-directories feature
- Keyboard navigation
I highly encourage you to fork my project and implement any of the features in the Roadmap. Just submit a pull request and be sure to give yourself credit here!
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