Pavel Shevaev wrote:
On 2/25/07, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Grepping for something seems to be trivial with :vimgrep and :grep but
> there's nothing simple like this for 'search&replace' and i wonder
> why... Is it done intentionally or i'm just missing something?
Just missing the power of the argdo/windo/bufdo commands:
Thank you very much, i'm surely going to have a deep look at these
commands. BTW, is it possible(i don't have vim installed on this box)
to find something with :vimgrep and then use :argdo to replace? I'm
asking about this because IMHO opening ~500 files with "vim *.txt"
just to replace something in several files looks like an overkill, no?
You still have to open them in :vimgrep (:verbose shows that :vimgrep reads
the viminfo for every file scanned so I guess it "opens" the files as for
editing). What you can avoid is the rewrite of unchanged files, by using
":update" rather than ":w" after the substitute:
:args *.txt
:argdo %s/\<John\>/Jack/g |up
Best regards,
Tony.
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