Mahendra Ladhe wrote: > I've opened say 20 files using one vim instance. I want to > do the same sequence of operations on all files as below. > 1. Replace occurrences of one word by some other word 2.. > Save the file 3. Delete it from buffer so that some other > file becomes current. > > Repeat above process till buffer becomes empty. > Can I club all these actions at vim command line? > something like > :s/one_word/another_word/g;w;bd
A better approach is to NOT close each file (you probably want to go back and admire each), so set option allowing you to have multiple changed buffers: :set hidden To substitute in all buffers: :bufdo %s/one_word/another_word/g When finished (and want to exit all): :xa John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
