* recursive query replace regexp
@ 2003-01-14 12:49 Per Nordlöw
2003-01-14 13:34 ` Christopher J. White
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From: Per Nordlöw @ 2003-01-14 12:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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.
Many thanks in advance,
Per Nordlöw
Swedish Defense Research Agency
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* Re: recursive query replace regexp
2003-01-14 12:49 recursive query replace regexp Per Nordlöw
@ 2003-01-14 13:34 ` Christopher J. White
2003-01-14 15:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-14 21:15 ` kgold
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From: Christopher J. White @ 2003-01-14 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> "per" == Per Nordlöw <per@foi.se> writes:
per> Is there any way to perform an interactive replace (query-replace) of
per> regular expressions recursively in all or some (specified by a regular
per> expression) files present in a directory tree.
Not sure what you mean by recursively, but if you just mean
doing the equivalent of query-replace-regexp on mulitple
files, take a look at etags:
1) First make a 'TAGS' file to include the files you want (shell)
$ etags `find . -name "*.blah.*.foo"`
This makes a TAGS file in the current directory
2) In emacs, do M-x tags-query-replace. It will query
for from-expression, to-expression, then the location
of the TAGS file.
etags is extremely powerful for language specific
stuff, but works just fine for iterating over
a set of files.
...cj
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* Re: recursive query replace regexp
2003-01-14 12:49 recursive query replace regexp Per Nordlöw
2003-01-14 13:34 ` Christopher J. White
@ 2003-01-14 15:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-14 21:15 ` kgold
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 2003-01-14 15:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
"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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Ambibibentists unite!
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* Re: recursive query replace regexp
2003-01-14 12:49 recursive query replace regexp Per Nordlöw
2003-01-14 13:34 ` Christopher J. White
2003-01-14 15:26 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 2003-01-14 21:15 ` kgold
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From: kgold @ 2003-01-14 21:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Edit the directory (emacs goes into dired mode), mark the files, and
use the Q command in dired.
"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.
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Ken Goldman kgold@watson.ibm.com 914-784-7646
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