Yet another sysadmin's personal blog Zola 2015-05-28T19:16:40+00:00 https://univers-libre.net/tags/vim/atom.xml 2015-05-28T19:16:40+00:00 2015-05-28T19:16:40+00:00 Romain https://univers-libre.net/posts/vim-play-macro-on-all-buffers/ <p>Here is a small useful tip, which I use in my daily sysadmin work, when I have a lot of similar configuration files to alter, but my modification is to complex to be scripted with sed/awk.</p> <p>The perfect example is Apache’s vhost configurations in site-enabled/.</p> <p>Open all files in Vim and start recording your macro (with <code>q</code>) on the first buffer.<br /> Until now I opened the next buffer, replay my macro, then opened the next buffer, replay my macro again, etc…<br /> Pretty boring.</p> <p>But I discovered recently that you can execute a command on all opened buffers, and particularly a macro. Here is the magic line:</p> <pre class="giallo z-code" ><code data-lang="plain"><span class="giallo-l"><span>:bufdo execute &quot;normal @a&quot;</span></span></code></pre> <p>Replace <em>a</em> with the name of your macro of course, and don’t miss to <code>:write</code> at the end of your macro (or add a <code>| write</code> at the end of the command).</p>