Practical Vim, 2nd Edition

Tip 70

Act Upon a Collection of Files

So far, we’ve stuck to tasks that were repeated in the same file, but we can play back a macro across a collection of files. Once again, we’ll consider how to execute the macro in parallel and in series.

Let’s start with a set of files that look something like this:

macros/ruby_module/animal.rb

# ...[end of copyright notice]
class Animal
  # implementation
end

We’ll wrap the class in a module to end up with this:

# ...[end of copyright notice]
module Rank
  class Animal
    # implementation...
  end
end

Preparation

Source these lines of configuration to reproduce the examples in this tip:

macros/rc.vim

set nocompatible
filetype plugin indent on
set hidden
if has( ...