From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Opening multiple files in a single buffer? Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 19:22:13 +0000 Message-ID: References: <83pna23j1h.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="84310"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (NEB 202 2017-01-01) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 13 21:22:57 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jkBk1-000LmH-DW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2020 21:22:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45804 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkBk0-0004kn-2D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:22:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54428) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkBjY-0004jb-8C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:22:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.20]:53165) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkBjW-0003XA-2t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:22:27 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 05DJMGSC004231 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Sat, 13 Jun 2020 19:22:16 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 05DJMGst007822; Sat, 13 Jun 2020 19:22:16 GMT In-Reply-To: <83pna23j1h.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.20; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/06/13 15:22:16 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123380 Archived-At: > >> Another application would be to open all the code files in a directory >> into a single buffer, and do replace-string or query-replace on all of >> them, to rename variables, for example. > > We have a special Dired command to do such renaming. > Indeed, but that's not the point. As I said what I'm proposing is a way to do some things more easily (for some users). Everything that could be done with such a feature can already be done in other ways. I don't use the menu-bar, the tool-bar, customize, or the menus on the mode-line. But I do not consider that they are useless. All these features make it possible to do things more easily (for some users), that can already be done in other ways. Gregory