Pro Vim

CHAPTER 9

Bulk Command Processing

Vim provides an incredibly powerful (and flexible) set of commands, which allow a set of arbitrary commands to be executed against an entire list. In Vim parlance a “list” could be one of the following: a group of open buffers, tabs, windows, and even Vim’s argument list (which I’ll explain near the end of this chapter).

For each list type (buffer list, tab list, window list, argument list) Vim provides a command which enables us to carry out actions in bulk (i.e., across multiple items). Let’s take a look at each of these commands in turn.

• bufdo
• windo
• tabdo
• argdo

bufdo

As we already know, when you open a file ...