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hari
hari

Reputation: 1439

Indenting in VIM with all the files in Folder

I have a folder containing hundreds of TTL (TeraTermLanguage) files. Now I wanted indent all these files.

I have created teraterm.vim for indentation and I open a file using VIM and do "gg=G" and whole file gets indented properly.

But is there any way, where I can indent all the files in folder.

I wanted to do with help of Shell. But in VIM I couldnt pass file indent command as the argument to VIM.

Please suggest which is the best way I can do indentation to all the files in VIM.

Upvotes: 38

Views: 9929

Answers (4)

Devvrat
Devvrat

Reputation: 1

Taking reference from the above answers I would like to make this complete. I will start from the scratch so that a beginner can understand.

Step-1 Install astyle (tool used for formatting ) by using the following command Open up a terminal. Type:

sudo apt-get install astyle

Step-2 Make sure you have vim installed on your system.Run the below commands from the directory in which your code files are.The below command will create a script that we intend to run recursively so as to beautify each and every file in our directory.(as mentioned in the above answer)

vim -w indentme.scr foo.c

Step-3 Then, type this exactly (in command mode) and press enter

:%!astyle

Step-4Then type this exactly (in command mode) and press enter

:wq

Step-5 Last run this recursively by the following command:

find . -type f -name '*.cpp' -exec vim -s indentme.scr "{}" \;

All your cpp files will be formatted properly.

Upvotes: 0

DoryuX
DoryuX

Reputation: 179

I went off of amphetamachine's solution. However, I needed to recursively search through multiple directories. Here's the solution that I used:

$ find . -type f -name '*.ttl' -exec vim -s indentme.scr "{}" \;

Upvotes: 3

nicholas a. evans
nicholas a. evans

Reputation: 2233

Much simpler than scripting vim from the bash command line is to use vimscript from inside of vim (or perhaps a much simpler one-liner for scripting vim from the command line). I personally prefer using the arg list for all multi-file manipulation. For example:

:args ~/src/myproject/**/*.ttl | argdo execute "normal gg=G" | update
  • args sets the arglist, using wildcards (** will match the current directory as well as subdirectories)
  • | lets us run multiple commands on one line
  • argdo runs the following commands on each arg (it will swallow up the second |)
  • execute prevents normal from swallowing up the next pipe.
  • normal runs the following normal mode commands (what you were working with in the first place)
  • update is like :w, but only saves when the buffer is modified.

This :args ... | argdo ... | update pattern is very useful for any sort of project wide file manipulation (e.g. search and replace via %s/foo/bar/ge or setting uniform fileformat or fileencoding).

(other people prefer a similar pattern using the buffer list and :bufdo, but with the arg list I don't need to worry about closing current buffers or opening up new vim session.)

Upvotes: 69

amphetamachine
amphetamachine

Reputation: 30575

Open up a terminal. Type:

$ vim -w indentme.scr foo.c

Then, type this exactly (in command mode):

gg=G:wq

This will close vim, saving the process of indenting all lines in the file to a Vim script called indentme.scr.

Note: indentme.scr will contain a record of all key commands typed, so when you are done indenting the file, don't spend a lot of time using the arrow keys to look around the file, because this will lead to a much larger script and will severely slow down batch operations.

Now, in order to indent all the lines in a file, just type the following command:

$ vim -s indentme.scr unindented-file.c

Vim will flash open-shut (if you're on a fast computer and not editing a huge file), indenting all lines, then saving the file in-place.

Unfortunately, this will only work on one file at a time, but you can scale the functionality easily using sh's for loop:

for filename in *.ttl ; do
    vim -s indentme.scr "$filename"
done

Note: This will save-over any file. Unless set bk is in your ~/.vimrc, don't expect a backup to be saved.

Upvotes: 12

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