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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com>
Subject: Re: isearch-regexp-in-all-matching-files-in-tree?
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:50:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DAB4A19.1040708@ihs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1034621906.27584.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Thomas L Roche wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Tom Roche wrote:
> 
>>>Use case: I'm in a dired buffer in GNU Emacs 21.1.1 on w2k. I
>>>want to _interactively_ search for the string 'GenericAction'
>>>(and replace with 'ActionClass') in all files with names
>>>matching '*.java' anywhere in the directory tree below the
>>>current directory.
>>>
> 
> Dave Forrest 10/14/2002 02:37 PM
> 
>>Would the Operate/Query replace in marked files Q
>> or
>>dired-do-query-replace do what you need?
>>
> 
> No, because it requires marking the matching files first, but if
> there's a way to do that, I could (manually) chain the two
> operations.


How about

M-x find-dired RET RET -type f -name "*.java"
C-x h
M-x dired-mark-files-in-region
Q GenericAction RET ActionClass RET

-- 
<a href="mailto:&lt;kevinr&#64;ihs.com&gt;">Kevin Rodgers</a>

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2002-10-15 19:14 ` isearch-regexp-in-all-matching-files-in-tree? Robert Mecklenburg
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2002-10-14 18:18 isearch-regexp-in-all-matching-files-in-tree? Thomas L Roche

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