Re: [vile] question about editing multiple files

[Paul Fox]

hymie! wrote:
 > 
 > Greetings.  I've been a vile user for years, and a question has come up.
 > I hope I can explain this correctly.
 > 
 > I have a directory with 20 files.  I have to edit all 20 files, and
 > I start off with a simple
 > vi *
 > 
 > This loads the files in alphabetical order.  But I'm not going to actually
 > edit the files in alphabetical order.  I will edit them in a random order
 > which I don't know until I'm actually editing them.  (The files refer to
 > each other, you see, and ^X-e is wonderful for this purpose).
 > 
 > So I edit file 1, and it refers me (say) to file 3, and then to file 6.
 > I'm done with that chain, so I use :n to edit file 2.  I edit file 2, and
 > it refers me (say) to file 9.  I'm done with that chain, so I use :n
 > to edit file 3.  But I've already edited file 3, and I'm ready to go to
 > file 4.
 > 
 > I know that all I have to do is hit :n again.  But I'm wondering if there
 > is some way that :n can be "taught" to skip the files that I've edited,
 > and only jump to the next unedited file.

hi -- not that i know of.  i think you're looking for a :next-unseen-file
command, or something like that.  it's possible it can be done with a
stored procedure, but i don't know that the ability to check whether a
specific file is unseen or not exists.

paul

 > 
 > Thanks.
 > 
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