Almost the same can be achieved in vim even without plugins :tabnew | r ! shopt -o globstar && grep -sn STRING ** This opens a new tab with the grepped ou

Almost the same can be achieved in vim even without plugins :tabnew | r ! shopt -o globstar && grep -sn STRING ** This opens a new tab with the grepped output. I simply navigate to the line so my cursor is on the filename, then C-w gf That's [Ctrl-W] followed by [g] and [f] And just like that, the file is open in yet another tab. The best part? Since the grep output is just another vim buffer, I can search it as well, just like any other buffer. And yes, ofc the above can be put into a custom command, just by putting this in the .vimrc: command -nargs=1 Gr :tabnew | r ! shopt -s globstar && grep -sn <args> ** Then the whole thing can be used like :Gr STRING