Space Station Lambda » Vim http://blog.viridian-project.de Leslie P. Polzer on code, music, literature, design and free software business. Wed, 19 May 2010 07:44:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Vim: Substitute in all buffers http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/10/02/vim-substitute-in-all-buffers/ http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/10/02/vim-substitute-in-all-buffers/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:56:44 +0000 Leslie http://blog.viridian-project.de/?p=116 To replace all instances of FOO with BAR in one file, you’d do:

:%s/FOO/BAR/g|:up

The pipe | lets you separate multiple commands and :up is like :w but only writes changed buffers.

Now for all open files:

:bufdo :%s/FOO/BAR/g|:up

Roughly translates to: for all open buffers, substitute FOO with BAR and write the changes.

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