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How to Grep Your Vimscript Sources?

When hacking on Vim itself, I often find myself staring at some error message without any clear ideas of its cause or how to proceed. Thus I wrote a small plugin to help tackle this problem.

Introducing GrepRtpScr, a plugin for grepping through your Vim’s scriptnames & runtimepath, which should help you to debug your loaded Vimscript sources, and remind you of all loadable sources respectively.

Here’s an asciicast (also in project README) with a quick demo.

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