Tim Chase wrote:
I think given those conditions (autowrite and nohidden), there seems to
be no such way from my experimenting. However, if you switch to using
hidden instead of nohidden, you can do
:argdo u
which will undo the last action in each argument.
I've been casually looking for such a feature, but so far I've come up a
little short. After a multi-file search-and-replace, I'd like to be
able to undo the replace across the files. The `:argdo u` command
almost does what I want, but I can't think how to restrict the undo
operation to changes made only by the replace operation. For example,
suppose I create two files and edit them together:
echo "first file" > first.txt
echo "second file" > second.txt
gvim first.txt second.txt
Suppose in first.txt I edit `first` to become `1st` using Vim editing
commands:
cw1st<Escape>
Now I perform a search-and-replace to change `second` to `2nd`:
:argdo %s/second/2nd/ge
Now I try to undo my most recent replace operation:
:argdo u
I'd like this to undo only the change(s) made by the s/// command, but
it also changes `1st` back to `first`. Since the `u` is performed
indiscriminately in all arguments regardless of whether the s/// command
made changes there, I can't blindly use the undo trick to reverse an
arbitrary replace operation.
I've tried saving all buffers before doing the replace operation, but
`:argdo u` undoes past the save (which generally pleases me greatly, but
is unfortunate in this case :-)).
I searched for "replace undo" in Vim's plugins and tips, but came up
empty. Does anyone have a pointer to a plugin or other resource to allow
blind undoing of multi-file replace operations?
Thanks,
Michael Henry
