On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Anthony Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to modify a large number of files (400+). > > I can semi-automate this as follows by recording the keystrokes: (1)find > a particular word, (2)delete a character that follows that world, > (3)repeat for a second instance of the character, (4)save the file, and > (5)load the next file in the list. > > This is pretty quick for half a dozen files but not for over 400. I feel > sure there must be some way to fully automate this (perhaps with argdo?) > but I can't figure out how. Is it possible?
This may be heresy on a vim mailing list, but perhaps you could script it in perl? perl -pi -e 's/word(char)/word/; s/$1//' -- 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
