Block oriented search and replace across multiple files.

Hal Burgiss hal at burgiss.net
Sun Nov 29 17:57:53 UTC 2009


On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:25:54AM -0800, Ray Parrish wrote:
> Also, I do not see any indication that Vim can do search, and replace 
> across multiple files simultaneously, so I'm back to writing my program, 
> which is coming along nicely.

See 'bufdo', 'tabdo', 'windo' commands to operate on multiple opened files.
Depending on where you have the files open (multiple buffers, tabs or
windows). 

:tabdo %s/test/x\rx\rx\rx/ge | update

-- 
Hal




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