On 22/05/09 09:15, John Beckett wrote:
>
> 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
Setting 'hidden' is not necessary, just save modified files as part of
the bufdo:
:bufdo %s/one_word/another_word/ge | update
Then :qa to quit, or do whatever else you want to do next. (The e flag
avoids the error if there is no match in some file.)
Best regards,
Tony.
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