Re: argdo does not execute macro on all args files

On 6 December 2013, Asis Hallab <asis.hallab@gmail.com> 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.

/lcd

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