vim-ex

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you perform reliable, non-interactive file edits without running into the portability and syntax pitfalls of stream-editing tools like sed in shell or agent automation.

Core Features & Use Cases

• In-place, non-interactive editing: Use Vim Ex mode to load a full file buffer and apply complex edits safely and directly in place.
• Multi-line and structured transformations: Execute multi-line substitutions, deletions, parsing-style edits, wrapping, and range-based operations.
• Batch & scripting patterns: Apply repeatable editing logic across many files (e.g., via find/exec or argdo) and use heredocs for maintainable command sets.

Quick Start

Ask the AI to edit the file non-interactively by running Ex in silent mode to apply a substitution and write changes: "Use ex -s to replace alias with alias_new in ~/.bashrc, then save the file."