Tip: #70 - Running a command on all buffers
Created: May 30, 2001 12:09 Complexity: basic Author: Scott Johnston Version: 5.7 Karma: 59/21 Imported from: Tip#70
From Peter Bismuti on the vim list:
How to global search and replace in all buffers with one command?
You need the AllBuffers command:
- call AllBuffers("%s/string1/string2/g")
"put this in a file and source it
function AllBuffers(cmnd)
let cmnd = a:cmnd
let i = 1
while (i <= bufnr("$"))
if bufexists(i)
execute "buffer" i
execute cmnd
endif
let i = i+1
endwhile
endfun
":call AllBuffers("%s/foo/bar/ge
Comments
I like this one better as you know exactly what is getting changed and it doesn't require writing any buffers, it just modifies them.
" execute a command for all buffers ther are shown in windows
fun! AllWindows(cmnd)
let cmnd = a:cmnd
let origw = winnr()
let i = 1
while (i <= bufnr("$"))
if bufexists(i)
let w = bufwinnr(i)
if w != -1
echo "=== window: " . w . " file: " . bufname(i)
execute "normal \<c-w>" . w . "w"
execute cmnd
endif
endif
let i = i+1
endwhile
execute "normal \<c-w>" . origw . "w"
endfun
amackay--AT--s.gusnet.cx , June 4, 2001 19:07
From Janakiraman .S:
Addiing those quotes is pretty boring. That is easy to fix. Just make a
command like
command! -nargs=+ -complete=command AllBuf call AllBuffers(<q-args>)
You could then replace across multiple files with
- AllBuf %s/foo/bar/ge
peoter_veliki--AT--hotmail.com
, June 4, 2001 22:43
What about the |argdo| and |bufdo| and |windo| commands?
Gergely Kontra
kgergely--AT--mcl.hu , January 9, 2002 6:33
bufdo works for me. Perhaps it's a new feature.
vincent.virgilio--AT--itt.com , September 13, 2002 13:47
bufdo disables syntax highlighting when moving between the buffers and hence is very fast.
akhil_thakur--AT--indiatimes.com , February 24, 2004 21:00