Multiple commands on same line

Question

I\'ve been trying to find something that will let me run multiple commands on the same line in Vim, akin to using semicolons to separate commands in *nix systems or &a

Answer 1

Thought this might help someone trying to do substitutions in a chain and one fails

from a comment

% s/word/newword/ge | % s/word2/newword2/ge

You can use the e flag to ignore the error when the string is not found.

Answer 2

The command seperator in vim is |.

Answer 3

A bar | will allow you to do this. From :help :bar

'|' can be used to separate commands, so you can give multiple commands in one line. If you want to use '|' in an argument, precede it with '\'.

Example:

:echo "hello" | echo "goodbye"

Output:

hello
goodbye

NB: You may find that your ~/.vimrc doesn't support mapping |, or \|. In these cases, try using <bar> instead.

Answer 4

You can create a new file, and write your commands on it. Then :so %, which means source current file.

Answer 5

I've always used ^J to separate multiple commands by pressing Ctrl+v, Ctrl+j.

Answer 6

You could define a function that executes your commands.

function Func()
     :command
     :command2 
endfunction

And place this in, for example, your vimrc. Run the function with

exec Func()