Question

I have read the other posts, e.g., vim: Executing a list of editor commands and others. The answer isn’t clear to me for my case. I have some editor commands that I generated from an SQL query. It uses :s/foo/bar to change country codes (from FIPS to a non-standard code set). Here’s a sample of the file:

:s/CB/CAMBO
:s/CQ/NMARI
:s/KV/KOSOV
:s/PP/PAPUA
...

I have saved that in a file called fipsToNonStd.vim (unsure about the correct extension). I want to run those commands one after another. What’s the easiest way to do so?

Thanks a bunch! SO Rocks!

Answer 1

I think you’re looking for the :source command.

There is online documentation that you can see in vim by running :help :source.