Re: need help with editing multiple files in a directory

[jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)]

I know you asked this as a lisp question, but sed may be better at
accomplishing this, as long as you're on a Unix-like system.  On
Windows, sed would be terrible at this, since it doesn't exist ;)

Joel

bittna@gmail.com writes:

> Hello,
>   I have multiple files in a directory that need a line added at a
> certain point in the file.  I wrote a lisp expression to do it, but I
> have to load the file, then run the command on the buffer, the save
> the file and I lose my place.  I used dired to do a find and replace
> on all of the files I needed, but how do I run my lisp expression on
> all of the files?
>
> Also how do I loop through all the buffers using lisp and switch into
> each buffer and do something, then move to the next buffer?
>
> Thanks!!!
>

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