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

Answer 1

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 2

Maybe this could help:

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

Answer 3

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 4

Try this 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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