Re: Search and Replace Across Multiple Files

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:23:36PM -0800, Davaris wrote:
>The only problem is I can't get the patterns to work. :-/
>
>I was given this to use,
>
>%s/var \(.*\) : \(.*\) = \(.*\);/\2 \1 = \3;/g
>%s/var \(.*\) : \(.*\);/\2 \1;/g
>%s/function \(.*\)() : \(.*\)/public \2 \1()/g
>%s/function \(.*\)/public void \1
>%s/boolean/bool
>
>but when I paste in the first line in command mode, it says
>
>E486: Pattern not found: var \(.*\) : \(.*\) = \(.*\);

As Karthick says, try an incremental search first. Make sure hls is set first, though, or you won't be able to see the matched text as you compose the regex.

>My other question, is it possible in Vim to enter all of these commands at
>once, rather than 1 at a time for each file I want to convert?

Separate them with a bar, eg.:

%s/var \(.*\) : \(.*\) = \(.*\);/\2 \1 = \3;/g | %s/var \(.*\) : \(.*\);/\2 \1;/g | etc...

If you want to do it across multiple files, have a look at :help bufdo and tabdo.

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