Scripting solutions aside, I thought the mailinglist would be a good place to talk with developers of vim (or policy makers) on their view on this. Do they post here?
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:51 AM, ZyX <[email protected]> wrote: > Reply to message «Re: :e handles one file», > sent 01:15:56 23 August 2011, Tuesday > by Tim Chase: > >> which should give you an ":E" command that works like ":e" except >> that if you give it one or more filespecs, it loads them all and >> leaves you on the last one. E.g. > Try :E %, it does not work. You should use expand(...) instead of glob(...) > because expand(...) expands % and some other specials and also globs. You also > definitely forgot fnameescape() and use `len(...)' where you can write either > `!empty(...)' or just `a:0'. > > // Not very important, but you can't :E filename with newlines. > > Original message: >> On 08/22/2011 01:15 PM, AK wrote: >> > On 08/22/2011 01:47 PM, Tim Chase wrote: >> >> Should the last file in the resulting filespec >> >> override the others (as if ":e f[12].txt" did the same thing as ":e >> >> f1.txt" followed by ":e f2.txt")? >> > >> > My guess is that if you asked 100 vim users, 90-95 would be fine with >> > either leaving first or last file in current window and loading the >> > rest in buffer list. >> > >> > But for this command, out of thousands, it can't be done! >> >> Not too hard to throw together something that will end up editing >> all of them: >> >> function! Edit(really, ...) >> if len(a:000) >> for globspec in a:000 >> let l:files = split(glob(globspec), "\n") >> for fname in l:files >> exec 'e'.(a:really).' '.(fname) >> endfor >> endfor >> else >> exec 'e'.(a:really) >> endif >> endfunction >> >> command! -nargs=* -complete=file -bang E call Edit("<bang>", >> <f-args>) >> >> which should give you an ":E" command that works like ":e" except >> that if you give it one or more filespecs, it loads them all and >> leaves you on the last one. E.g. >> >> :E >> :E! >> :E *.txt >> :E! *.txt >> :E *.txt *.html >> :E! *.txt *.html >> >> So, while I wouldn't use, it's a pretty simple function to make >> use of. >> >> -tim > -- 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 http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
