Vim: search all rewritable buffers

Question

So

1GvG:s/..../g 

can replace the entire buffer

However, suppose I have several vim buffers loaded, and I want to do: s on top of all the writable buffers; is there any way to do this in vim?

Answer 1

Since I cannot leave comments, I will repeat what Brian said and added to my 2 cents.

I believe that the team you are looking for is:

 :bufdo :%s/..../g | :w 

Note. This will record every file after making changes, so make sure you are ready for it.

If autowrite is enabled, you must remove "|: w" at the end of the command.

Answer 2

Take a look at bufdo . There are also windo and tabdo . Keep in mind that by default Vim does not auto-detect, so to find / replace commands in the buffer you need to enable autowrite.

Answer 3

Greplace has a feature that supports this. Github also has a version prepared for the pathogen .