Re: :e handles one file

On 08/22/2011 05:15 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 08/22/2011 01:15 PM, AK wrote:
>> On 08/22/2011 01:47 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
>>> Should the last file in the resulting filespec
>>> override the others (as if ":e f[12].txt" did the same thing as ":e
>>> f1.txt" followed by ":e f2.txt")?
>>
>> My guess is that if you asked 100 vim users, 90-95 would be fine with
>> either leaving first or last file in current window and loading the
>> rest in buffer list.
>>
>> But for this command, out of thousands, it can't be done!
>
> Not too hard to throw together something that will end up editing all of
> them:
>
> function! Edit(really, ...)
> if len(a:000)
> for globspec in a:000
> let l:files = split(glob(globspec), "\n")
> for fname in l:files
> exec 'e'.(a:really).' '.(fname)
> endfor
> endfor
> else
> exec 'e'.(a:really)
> endif
> endfunction
>
> command! -nargs=* -complete=file -bang E call Edit("<bang>", <f-args>)
>
> which should give you an ":E" command that works like ":e" except that
> if you give it one or more filespecs, it loads them all and leaves you
> on the last one. E.g.
>
> :E
> :E!
> :E *.txt
> :E! *.txt
> :E *.txt *.html
> :E! *.txt *.html
>
> So, while I wouldn't use, it's a pretty simple function to make use of.
>
> -tim

Thanks, I for one will use it. I don't see any harm if vim could do this
with :e command though. -ak

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