From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Search and replace for a single file using a pattern file
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:28:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3ldapet.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <240d8da5-5078-4ecc-a285-0719841d124a@googlegroups.com> (Angus Comber's message of "Thu, 4 Jan 2018 02:02:29 -0800 (PST)")
Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes:
> I have some horrible logs where integers are printed for states and
> I want to do a global search and replace on the file to eg replace
> integer x with a string.
>
> I can obviously do individually using c-m-% but that is fairly
> laborious. So use of a search and replace mapping in a text file
> would be really convenient.
>
> Is this possible? any suggestions?
Which bit is laborious? The query portion of C-M-%? You can hit !
after the first match, or else do
M-: (replace-string "from" "to")
multiple times (or wrap that in a function over your list of
replacements)
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-04 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-04 10:02 Search and replace for a single file using a pattern file Angus Comber
2018-01-04 10:28 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2018-01-04 10:50 ` tomas
2018-01-04 15:05 ` Rusi
2018-01-04 16:54 ` Rusi
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