Recursive find & replace in Vim
After switching to Vim from Sublime (via a brief stint on Atom) there’s one feature that I used infrequently, but was incredibly invaluable when needed and that Recursive find & replace. I wish there was a simple shift+cmd+f to bring it up, but here’s how to achieve something similar in Vim. Populate Vim args: :args `find <dir_to_look_in> -type f` Find & replace: :argdo %s/<replace_this>/<with_this>/gce | update g - Change all occurrences on each line c - Confirm before replacing e - Skips pattern not found errors | update - Saves buffer after applying change Alternatively, you could just use vim-easygrep…