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I usually find myself running pattern replacements on the results of vim-fugitive's Ggrep
:Ggrep someFunctionName
:cfdo %s/someFunctionName/someOtherName/g | update
And that works great but I can still see someFunctionName on the quickfix matches.
I know the quickfix gets those values from another function and it doesn't keep track of the actual files, but I'm wondering if there's a way to read the locations and refresh them with the new content.
I am sure there is a better way, but this is how I would do it:
call setqflist(map(getqflist(), 'extend(v:val, {"text":get(getbufline(v:val.bufnr, v:val.lnum),0)})'))
Basically use getqflist() to get each Quickfix line. Using getbufline() to get each newly updated line. Then update the quickfix list via setqflist().
Note: This relies on getbufline() which requires the buffer to be loaded to get a line back properly (:cfdo should load the buffers).
For more help see:
:h setqflist()
:h getqflist()
:h map()
:h extend()
:h getbufline()
:h get()
:h :call
cfdo already does that for me. I'll use your answer in this custom command: command! UpdateQF call setqflist(map(getqflist(), 'extend(v:val, {"text":get(getbufline(v:val.bufnr, v:val.lnum),0)})')) That way I can do: :cfdo %s//something/g | update | UpdateQF
– davidmh
Sep 21 '17 at 20:16
UpdateQF inside cfdo %s//something/g | update | UpdateQF is creating a new quickfix list for every file. I imagine this could make quickfix list history useless. May want to do it as a separate command after the executing your :cfdo command.
– Peter Rincker
Sep 21 '17 at 20:56
