Re: argdo does not execute macro on all args files

Hi there!

2013/12/6 LCD 47 <lcd047@gmail.com>:
> 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.
>

Did not get any error message. Not even with
:messages

I just tested it on another computer (Linux Mint with latest binary
vim 7.3). Here it works!!!!

Stranger and stranger…

@Tim
>:args **/*.rb

Yes, I do know the starstar notation. Just an old habbit to use :args `find… `

Cheers!

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