Re: text substitution for all the files opened in vim

2011-02-24 Thread Tim Chase
On 02/23/2011 11:20 PM, Ben Schmidt wrote: On 24/02/11 3:50 PM, Peng Yu wrote: :%s only perform substitution with a file. Is there a command that can perform substitution in all the files that are opened by a vim session? Check out :help :argdo :help :bufdo ...remembering that vim will

Re: text substitution for all the files opened in vim

2011-02-24 Thread Christian Brabandt
On Thu, February 24, 2011 1:03 pm, Tim Chase wrote: On 02/23/2011 11:20 PM, Ben Schmidt wrote: :help :argdo :help :bufdo ...remembering that vim will complain if you try to leave a modified buffer unless you 1) save the buffer as part of your command: :bufdo %s/foo/bar/g|w 2) set

Re: text substitution for all the files opened in vim

2011-02-24 Thread David Kahn
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Christian Brabandt cbli...@256bit.orgwrote: On Thu, February 24, 2011 1:03 pm, Tim Chase wrote: On 02/23/2011 11:20 PM, Ben Schmidt wrote: :help :argdo :help :bufdo ...remembering that vim will complain if you try to leave a modified buffer unless you

Re: text substitution for all the files opened in vim

2011-02-24 Thread Tim Chase
On 02/24/2011 09:07 AM, David Kahn wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Christian Brabandtcbli...@256bit.orgwrote: On Thu, February 24, 2011 1:03 pm, Tim Chase wrote: On 02/23/2011 11:20 PM, Ben Schmidt wrote: :help :argdo :help :bufdo ...remembering that vim will complain if you try to

text substitution for all the files opened in vim

2011-02-23 Thread Peng Yu
:%s only perform substitution with a file. Is there a command that can perform substitution in all the files that are opened by a vim session? -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit

Re: text substitution for all the files opened in vim

2011-02-23 Thread Michael(Xi Zhang)
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: :%s only perform substitution with a file. Is there a command that can perform substitution in all the files that are opened by a vim session? You can try :bufdo %s ... Refer help bufdo for more information. -- You

Re: text substitution for all the files opened in vim

2011-02-23 Thread Ben Schmidt
On 24/02/11 3:50 PM, Peng Yu wrote: :%s only perform substitution with a file. Is there a command that can perform substitution in all the files that are opened by a vim session? Check out :help :argdo :help :bufdo Cheers, Ben. -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do