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Subject:    Re: Newbie question: How to give a command over they current file and all other files in directory
From:       "Tony Mechelynck" <antoine.mechelynck () skynet ! be>
Date:       2005-09-28 8:55:52
Message-ID: 001001c5c40a$6e45ea80$fdebc950 () tonylap
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Leenman" <ELeenman@greefa.nl>
To: "vim" <vim@vim.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:28 AM
Subject: Newbie question: How to give a command over they current file and 
all other files in directory


> Hi,
>
> If I have one file open in gVim, say file1.c,
> how can I give a command in gVim which would apply to file1.c but also
> to all other .c files in the directory which are not open in gVim?
>
> For Example to:
> - rename everywhere global var gWriteFlag into gWrFlg
> :%s/gWriteFlag/gWrFlg
> - to remove all spaces at the end of lines
> :%s=  *$==
>
>
> Rgds,
> Eric

    " change to directory of current file
    :cd %:p:h
    " define new arguments list
    :args *.c
    " do something on all files in the list
    :argdo 1,$s/\<gWriteFlag\>/gWrFlg/g
or
    :argdo 1,$s/\s*$//

Note: for the first substitution, you will probably want to check for word 
boundaries (not replace BlogWriteFlaggingRoutine by BlogWrFlggingRoutine) 
and replace all matches, even several on a line (hence the g flag).

    see
        :help :args
        :help :argdo


HTH,
Tony. 


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