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From: "michael.l" <michael.lommel@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to apply a list of regex replaces to multiple files?
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:09:29 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b08e826-8484-41ad-bf37-52845ec26a51@f24g2000prh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.14069.1214901523.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Jul 1, 1:38 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
<lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I'll look into elisp...Struggled with perl to do this....


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-01  1:50 How to apply a list of regex replaces to multiple files? michael.l
2008-07-01  5:23 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-01  5:56   ` michael.l
2008-07-01  7:01 ` Tim X
2008-07-01  7:33 ` Phil Carmody
2008-07-01  8:38 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found] ` <mailman.14069.1214901523.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-01 15:09   ` michael.l [this message]
2008-07-01 17:39     ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-07-02  8:20     ` Tim X
2008-08-01  8:38       ` David Combs
2008-07-01 23:25 ` Xah

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