On Dec 6, 2013 6:37 PM, "Asis Hallab" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there! > > 2013/12/6 LCD 47 <[email protected]>: > > On 6 December 2013, Asis Hallab <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Vimmers, > >> > >> I just had a surprising experience with Vim's argdo command. > >> > >> I did the following: > >> 1) In my ruby on rails project I opened Vim and set the argument list with > >> :args `find . -name '*.rb'` > >> After this, I could see, that all Ruby files in the project were in > >> the argument list > >> 2) I recorded a macro to add a simple comment line at the top of the file > >> ggO# encoding: utf-8^[ > >> 3) I executed this macro on all files in the argument list: > >> :argdo :norm @q > >> > >> Interestingly only a subset of the files in the argument list got > >> changed, others were untouched. > >> In fact it only affected the files in a certain sub-directory. > >> > >> Does anyone have a clue why this happened? > > [...] > > > > Perhaps it aborted at an error? Macros are tricky like that. > > > > Did not get any error message. Not even with > :messages
It is not necessary seen. Try macro "fad$" when there is no "a" on the line: it aborts, but no error messages are displayed: definition of the error that aborts the macro is wider. I do not see where an error is possible in your macro. I would have used append(0) though and not a macro in this case. > > I just tested it on another computer (Linux Mint with latest binary > vim 7.3). Here it works!!!! > > Stranger and stranger… > > @Tim > >:args **/*.rb > > Yes, I do know the starstar notation. Just an old habbit to use :args `find… ` > > Cheers! > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
