From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: need help with editing multiple files in a directory Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:55:06 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <873azki05x.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <1184860347.592401.221020@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184881272 5782 80.91.229.12 (19 Jul 2007 21:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:41:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 19 23:41:11 2007 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 1IBdkD-0004SL-BR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:41:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IBdkC-0000cl-V7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:41:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1184878556 29110 132.183.29.121 (19 Jul 2007 20:55:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:55:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:C7cTtLYsR0pDNHNlXkVKr3W0MHU= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150236 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:45818 Archived-At: 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!!! > -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109 http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html