I think some commenters are forgetting how science is done. Just because you are researching X does not mean your only output is X. An investment into SETI is an investment in science and technology. All the arguments on this forum about why we should not allocate funds to SETI can be used in the same manner for why we should not investment in pure mathematics or any other potentially "useless" human endeavor. SETI researchers will come up with novel ways to solve their problems and invent new technologies along the way, the same as every other branch of science and engineering. It's how we got SETI@home and now boinc is used for lots of problems like protein folding (1).
Plus, for those of us that have read Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (2), we understand that SETI research is the biggest gamble in scientific research. High risk with the highest reward. What could fundamentally change humanity more than definitively finding intelligent life out there?
Lastly, some commenters need to go read Carl Sagan's Contact. He goes over all of this nay-saying!
I'm not sure it will work for you, and I'm going to assume that when you hit Enter on a filepath inside your Vim buffer, a new viewport is opened (by the ZipBrowseSelect() function defined in $VIMRUNTIME/autoload/zip.vim) to display the contents of the file.
If this is the case, you could try the following method.
:%argd
This command deletes all the paths in the current arglist.
Then, you would have to visually select all the lines containing a path to a file you want to modify. From normal mode, you could hit vip, for example, and adjust the visual selection to exclude some lines if needed.
:'<,'>g/^/exe "norm \r" | argadd % | close
This command should hit Enter on each line inside your visual selection, add the file which has been opened in a new viewport, and close the latter to get back to the original window.
:vim /pattern/ ##
This command should populate the quickfix list with all the lines containing the pattern you're looking for.
:cfdo %s/pattern/replacement/ge | update
This command should replace pattern with replacement in each file present in the quickfix list, and save the file if it has been changed.
The last step uses the :cfdo command which was introduced in Vim version 7.4.858. If your Vim version is not new enough to support :cfdo, you could bypass the last 2 steps, and directly execute:
... is to prune the arglist from the files which don't contain your pattern, so that the substitutions commands are only executed when needed.
If you don't have :cfdo but still want to prune the arglist, you could source this custom command:
com! -nargs=0 -bar Qargs exe 'args '.s:qfl_names()
fu! s:qfl_names() abort
let buffer_numbers = {}
for qf_item in getqflist()
let buffer_numbers[qf_item['bufnr']] = bufname(qf_item['bufnr'])
endfor
return join(map(values(buffer_numbers), 'fnameescape(v:val)'))
endfu
I've copied it from this video: Project-wide find and replace.
Most of the other commands are also taken from this video, so it might help you to have a look at it, if you don't have already.
Then, you would replace the :cfdo command, with:
:Qargs
:argdo %s/pattern/replacement/ge | update
To summarize, you could try one of these 3 methods:
:%argd
visually select the paths of the files
:'<,'>g/^/exe "norm \r" | argadd % | close
:argdo %s/pattern/replacement/ge | update
Or:
:%argd
visually select the paths of the files
:'<,'>g/^/exe "norm \r" | argadd % | close
:vim /pattern/ ##
:cfdo %s/pattern/replacement/ge | update
Or:
:%argd
visually select the paths of the files
:'<,'>g/^/exe "norm \r" | argadd % | close
:vim /pattern/ ##
:Qargs
:argdo %s/pattern/replacement/ge | update
Edit:
You could also try to visually select the paths of the files, then execute:
The first thought looking at the picture -- it could be interstellar probe created by some alien race. Rotation and metal body -- something to think about. This reminds me "The Dark Forest Theory" described in the fantastic trilogy "The Three-Body Problem" by Cixin Liu [1] -- Chinese Isaac Asimov. Really great read in case you didn't read it yet.
Plus, for those of us that have read Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (2), we understand that SETI research is the biggest gamble in scientific research. High risk with the highest reward. What could fundamentally change humanity more than definitively finding intelligent life out there?
Lastly, some commenters need to go read Carl Sagan's Contact. He goes over all of this nay-saying!
[1] https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ [2] https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/07653...
I'm not sure it will work for you, and I'm going to assume that when you hit Enter on a filepath inside your Vim buffer, a new viewport is opened (by the
ZipBrowseSelect()function defined in$VIMRUNTIME/autoload/zip.vim) to display the contents of the file.If this is the case, you could try the following method.
This command deletes all the paths in the current arglist. Then, you would have to visually select all the lines containing a path to a file you want to modify. From normal mode, you could hit
vip, for example, and adjust the visual selection to exclude some lines if needed.This command should hit Enter on each line inside your visual selection, add the file which has been opened in a new viewport, and close the latter to get back to the original window.
This command should populate the quickfix list with all the lines containing the pattern you're looking for.
This command should replace
patternwithreplacementin each file present in the quickfix list, and save the file if it has been changed.The last step uses the
:cfdocommand which was introduced in Vim version 7.4.858. If your Vim version is not new enough to support:cfdo, you could bypass the last 2 steps, and directly execute:The benefit of:
... is to prune the arglist from the files which don't contain your pattern, so that the substitutions commands are only executed when needed.
If you don't have
:cfdobut still want to prune the arglist, you could source this custom command:I've copied it from this video: Project-wide find and replace. Most of the other commands are also taken from this video, so it might help you to have a look at it, if you don't have already.
Then, you would replace the
:cfdocommand, with:To summarize, you could try one of these 3 methods:
Or:
Or:
Edit:
You could also try to visually select the paths of the files, then execute:
This method relies on the fact that the path to a file in the archive seems to follow this scheme:
So, you can get the path to a file under the cursor with the Vim expression:
And you can edit this file using backticks (see
:h `=):From there, you need the global command, to repeat the edition on each line inside the visual selection.
In the epub I tested, all the paths were below the line
mimetype. If this is the case for you, then you could merge the 2 steps (visual selection + global command) in a single command:https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/07653...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/07653...