On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Tim Chase <vim@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
On 12/01/11 22:11, Rick R wrote:Without particulars, it's a bit hard to give a concrete example. In the general case, it sounds like you want to mix a combination of an argdo/windo/bufdo/tabdo command (to iterate over all the associated buffers/windows) and issue a search&replace (or insertion) command anchored at at a given text. Thus you might have something like
I often will find a multi line snippet of text that I'd like
to then replace in multiple files in my project after a
certain block of text (maybe it's some javascript for example
so I'll want the multiple lines pasted after the
initial<script> tag.)
How do I do this easily in vim (or MacVim/gVim if those gui
editors on top can help?)
:windo %s/block_of_text\zsmulti\nline\ntext/replacement
or
:set hidden
:bufdo g/block_of_text/sil! put='some text to put after'
(verify it all looks good)
:wall
If you have content in the clipboard you want to paste after each line, you can do
:[whatever]do g/where_to_put_it/put=@*
I'm still having trouble with this. I actually want it to replace the text in multiple files that aren't opened. I thought about trying to use sed but for the life of me I can't figure out how to get the replace/append portion of text to work with multiple lines of the text I want to replace with? For example if I have the following text in an html file:
<body>
Now I have multiple lines I want to add after that I've copied from a website.....
foo
bar
foo
bar
I want to append them after <body> in all the html files in the directory.
With sed I couldn't figure out (from googling) how I could replace the multiple line text that I have... as soon as i'd paste that into the terminal it would obviously cause line breaks.
Using what you suggested in vim I though maybe I could do something like:
:args *.html
:argdo g/<body>/put=@*
But when try that (and I know in the above I'd lose the <body> tag if it worked) all I get is <body> highlighted in the file displayed.
Any more suggestions appreciated.
The reason for the 'hidden' is that Vim won't let you leave a modified buffer unless it's set. With :windo or :tabdo it's not a problem because they aren't closed, but with argdo/bufdo, they leave the current (modified) buffer to progress to the next. If you're feeling reckless, you can include a ":w" after your command to also write the file out before leaving it (with the caveats listed at ":help :bar" regarding commands that may require an :exec )
Hope this points you in the right direction. With greater detail from you, perhaps more detailed help can be given :)
-tim
Rick R
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