How to effectively work with multiple files in Vim

Question

I\'ve started using Vim to develop Perl scripts and am starting to find it very powerful.

One thing I like is to be able to open multiple files at once with:

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Answer 1

Things like :e and :badd will only accept ONE argument, therefore the following will fail

:e foo.txt bar.txt
:e /foo/bar/*.txt
:badd /foo/bar/*

If you want to add multiple files from within vim, use arga[dd]

:arga foo.txt bar.txt
:arga /foo/bar/*.txt
:argadd /foo/bar/*