http://www.saminverso.com Not a Substitute for Human Interaction Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:50:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.saminverso.com/2007/05/09/search-and-replace-in-all-buffers http://www.saminverso.com/2007/05/09/search-and-replace-in-all-buffers#comments Wed, 09 May 2007 02:40:02 +0000 Sam http://www.saminverso.com/2007/05/09/search-and-replace-in-all-buffers/ Vim: Search and replace in all buffers
:bufdo %s/pattern/substitution/ge | update
bufdo: applies the following command to all buffers.
%s: means search and replace the whole file
g: change all instances in a line
e: avoids the error when the pattern doesn’t exist in a file
update: writes the file only if changes were made
See also :argdo

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