Re: Trying to apply macro to all files under a folder

On 2020-08-31 23:36, russurquhart1@verizon.net wrote:
> I *think* you need to apply the :normal to the whole file unless the
> macro itself does everything in one invocation.
>
> The @b macro only adds a single line of text.

If it's a whole line, you might have better luck with the :put
command such as

:argdo 0put='Line of text to put at the top'

> The only other wrinkle is that I am working on a git local branch.

That shouldn't impact anything. I regularly work on local git
branches without issue.

> When you set the arg list, where does it start? from your current
> working directory?

It depends a bit on how you populate it and how your OS expands
globs, I suspect. Once you've populated it with

:args **/inde*.md

or whatever, you can check/display the arg-list by just issuing

:args

without additional parameters. I think your original glob didn't
recurse into subdirectories, so you might also need to prepend "**/"
to search into subdirectories

:help starstar

-tim


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