how to open a file in a list of files in vim?

Question

I have a longish list of files opened in vim that looks like this:

/dir1/file1
/dir2/file2
/dir2/file3
.....

How can I open all of them one by one the easiest way possible in the same session of vim either with split or edit?

Answer 1

You can do the following

cat file | xargs vim

Where "file" contains your list of files, this will open the files in the same vim session. As usual when opening multiple buffers, you can navigate forward with :bn and backward :bp.

Answer 2

I'd say with -p for tabs

vim -p `cat yourlistoffiles`

Answer 3

Maybe this could help:

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/windows.html

Answer 4

It's as simple as typing

vim /dir1/file1 /dir2/file1 /dir2/file2 ...

Once you're in vim, you can switch betwen then with ":n" to go to the next file, ":prev" to go to the previous file.

Answer 5

I'm going to assume you have the file list open inside Vim, and want to simulate the "gf" command across the whole list...

Edit your .vimrc to include this function:

function Openall()
    edit <cfile>
    bfirst
endfunction

You can then highlight the entire file (or the set of paths you want to open) using visual mode (1G, Shift-V, G) and typing ":call Openall()". Afterwards the command row will show this:

:'<,'>call Openall()

This will run the new Openall() function across all highlighted lines.

Press Enter and all the files will be opened in background buffers. You can then access them using the usual buffer commands. :ls will display them as a list.

Answer 6

My searchInRuntime plugin has a :Sp and a :Vsp commands that'll do the trick when called banged. However, the files have to exist.

Answer 7

You can use quickfix mode, as following

:set errorformat=%f
:cf myfilelist

at this point you can use the normal quickfix shortcuts to go through your files, :cn for the next file, :cp for the previous one and :cr to go to the first again.

EDIT:

oh, if you want to read the list from the current buffer, use :cb instead of :cf in in the instructions above

Answer 8

Try:

with bash$ vim -S <(sed "s/^/badd /" <your file name>)

But I don't know why the first line of the file is ignored... :-O

This script works as expected:

rm -f myfile
for i in `seq 10000`
do
  touch $i
  echo $i >> myfile
done
vi -c "badd `head -1 myfile`" -S <(sed "s/^/badd /" myfile)

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