Re: bufdo broken in 7.2.325?

> Unless you have 'hidden' 'autowrite' or 'autowriteall' set, your first
> command will refuse to |abandon| the modified buffer (see ":help abandon").
> You should have done:
>
>        :bufdo %s/2009/2010/ge |update

I tried ':bufdo! %s/2009/2010/ge' and it behaved as expected (hiding
the buffers that were modified).

> -- and BTW, beware that the above will also change 120090 to 120100.

Good point. How do I search for white space before and after the 2009
and replace it with 2010 saving the white space?

Thank you all for your replies.

Chris

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