Practical Vim, 2nd Edition

Tip 36

Run Multiple Ex Commands as a Batch

If we need to execute a sequence of Ex commands, we can save ourselves work by putting those commands in a script. Next time we want to run those commands, we can source the script rather than typing the commands one by one.

This file contains links to the first couple of episodes from the Vimcasts archive:

cmdline_mode/vimcasts/episodes-1.html

<ol>
  <li>
    <a href="/episodes/show-invisibles/">
      Show invisibles
    </a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/episodes/tabs-and-spaces/">
      Tabs and Spaces
    </a>
  </li>
</ol>

We need to modify this into a plain-text format showing the title followed by the URL:

cmdline_mode/vimcasts-episodes-1.txt

Show invisibles: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/show-invisibles/ ...