On Friday 01 January 2010 06:35:22 pm Chris Sutcliffe wrote:

> I was in the process of updating the copyright date for a
>  whole bunch
> 
> of my source files that I had open in buffers in vim.  I tried:
> :bufdo %s/2009/2010/ge
> 
> All it did was update the first buffer.  I executed:
> :tab sball
> 
> to get all the buffers into tabs and executed:
> :tabdo %s/2009/2010/ge
> 
> and it worked just fine.  Did I do something wrong with bufdo,
>  or is it broken?

i think you need a write after the substitute so vim can abandon 
each buffer and go on to the next

sc

-- 
You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.
For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php

Reply via email to