Running a set of regular expressions in VI

Question

I have a list of regular expressions I would like to run on my C code files. They are simple formatting stuff and would save me trouble while my code is reviewed.

Here they are

this removes 2 or more blank lines in a single blank line

:%s/\n\{3,}/\r\r/e

this add missing space at the end of the comment eg /* blah blah*/ to /* blah blah */

:%s/\([^ *]\)\*\//\1 \*\//gc

this add missing space at the start of the comment eg /blah blah/ to /* blah blah*/ note that it ignores /**

:%s/\/\*\([^  *]\)/\/\* \1/gc

removes blank lines after opening brace {

:%s/{\s*$\n\{2,}/{\r/gc

removes blank lines before closing brace }

:%s/\n\{2,}\(\s*\)}/\r\1}/gc

in comments adds a space after comma if missing TODO throws and error E16 if no patterns match

:g/\/\*/ ,/\*\// s/,\([^ ]\)/, \1/gc

I have saved these in a file called fix.txt. Is there a way I can run them from within VI one after the other? something like

:run fix.txt ?

Answer 1

You have to execute:

:source fix.txt

See :help :source.