From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to apply a list of regex replaces to multiple files? Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:38:33 +0200 Message-ID: <4869ED09.2060100@gmail.com> References: <091f39ab-89ac-438f-a878-464309c4a8f6@i18g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214901560 31547 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2008 08:39:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:39:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "michael.l" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 01 10:40:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KDbP1-0006Q8-6F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:39:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39207 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDbOA-0001DO-NV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDbNp-0001Ca-S4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:38:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDbNp-0001BL-0s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:38:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49405 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDbNo-0001BG-Az for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:38:40 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:41724) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KDbNn-0005v9-QE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:38:40 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:62369 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KDbNl-00070O-8M; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:38:37 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <091f39ab-89ac-438f-a878-464309c4a8f6@i18g2000prn.googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080630-1, 2008-06-30), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KDbNl-00070O-8M. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KDbNl-00070O-8M c521c21552f722e71bcb11942fe124f8 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55174 Archived-At: michael.l wrote: > I've browsed the messages here and have googled but don't see a clear > solution yet. I have about 900 documents to which I need to apply a > list of maybe 40 separate regex search and replaces. I would like to > feed a list of the regex expressions and replacements to emacs and > have it applied to a directory of the files. Any solutions? Keyboard > macros don't seem like the right solution.... Sounds like the best would be writing a small elisp function to do the job.