On 2011-11-16, Jeet Sukumaran wrote: > On Nov 3, 1:11 pm, "Weissman, Eric (GE Energy Services)" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have just come across vim for the first time and so I am probably > > asking an old question (but I didn't find it in the FAQ): > > > > Can vim be used as a command on a shell command line? I would like to > > use it to search a list of files and substitute a new string for a > > pattern it finds, and then write the resulting file to a new filename > > for each file in the original list.
> I just discovered a tool to do exactly this: > > https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir > > Ever since installing it, I do not think I can work without it. If you're looking for a vi-like file manager, you might also be interested in 'ranger'. http://ranger.nongnu.org/ And please don't top-post to this list. Regards, Gary -- 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
