How do I open files from Quickfix List in Vim when using EasyGrep?

Question

I'm relatively new to Vim. I've just installed EasyGrep but can't figure out how to open the files listed in the Quickfix List when I do a search. I can cycle through files containing a matching word using :cn or open a file by double-clicking with my mouse but when I press <Enter> nothing happens. I've also tried go and t but neither of these are working.

Can anyone help?!

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

As already mentioned by @ryuichiro, and then quoted by @Alistair Colling, the quickfix documentation (:h quickfix and :hquickref) provides an answer for how to open files within a quickfix list:

You can use :.cc to jump to the error under the cursor. Hitting the <Enter> key or double-clicking the mouse on a line has the same effect. The file containing the error is opened in the window above the quickfix window.

Make sure that your <Enter> Key (<CR>) is not mapped so that it properly works. As already mentioned by @ryuichiro, this can be checked with

:verbose map <CR>

If you have a global mapping for <CR> (e.g. in my case a mapping from the NERDtree plugin), you can undefine it just for when you are within a quickfix list based on adding the following line to your ~/.vimrc as explained here:

autocmd BufReadPost quickfix nnoremap <buffer> <CR> <CR>