Useful vim tricks

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Louis Maddox edited this page Feb 10, 2021 · 2 revisions

Chain :wn after another ex command in vim with | to "move on to the next file" (and just repeat the same thing), e.g. to do a replace all and move on:
```
echo "hello world" > a.txt
echo "hello? world?" > b.txt
echo "helloooo world" > c.txt
vim {a,b,c}.txt
```
⇣
```
:%s/o/a/g | wn
```
You might combine this with grep to find the files with the matching string:
```
vim $(grep -r "o" | cut -d ":" -f 1 | sort | uniq)
```