I have a similar workflow already that may be of use to vim users. I pipe file lists (from grep etc) into vim (using a '-' to tell vim to read from stdin): g

I have a similar workflow already that may be of use to vim users. I pipe file lists (from grep etc) into vim (using a '-' to tell vim to read from stdin): grep -nri searchterm * | vim - You can then use 'gF' over a file name to open the file in question (and be taken to the right line number if specified in the form somefile.txt:42). You can use '<c-w>gF' to open the file in a new tab, or '<c-w>F' to open the file in a split instead. As an added bonus you can re-filter the file list from within vim to, for example, remove things from a test directory without having to run the original command again: :%!grep -v ^test