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"Per Nordlöw" <per@foi.se> writes:

> Is there any way to perform an interactive replace (query-replace) of
> regular expressions recursively in all or some (specified by a regular
> expression) files present in a directory tree.

In addition to TAGS files, another approach is M-x find-dired RET to
generate a dired buffer with the files, then invoke Q (not q).

You need (require 'dired-x) in ~/.emacs for Q to work.
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