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* Re: isearch-regexp-in-all-matching-files-in-tree?
@ 2002-10-14 18:55 Thomas L Roche
  2002-10-15 15:37 ` isearch-regexp-in-all-matching-files-in-tree? Bill Pringlemeir
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Thomas L Roche @ 2002-10-14 18:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: help-gnu-emacs, help-emacs-windows

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Tom Roche wrote:
>> Use case: I'm in a dired buffer in GNU Emacs 21.1.1 on w2k. I
>> want to _interactively_ search for the string 'GenericAction'
>> (and replace with 'ActionClass') in all files with names
>> matching '*.java' anywhere in the directory tree below the
>> current directory.

Dave Forrest 10/14/2002 02:37 PM
> Would the Operate/Query replace in marked files Q
>  or
> dired-do-query-replace do what you need?

No, because it requires marking the matching files first, but if
there's a way to do that, I could (manually) chain the two
operations.

Alternatively, is there a way that I could query-replace-regexp
on a grep-mode buffer, instead of a dired buffer? I'd be happy if
I could

M-x grep-find RET

find . -type f -print0 -name '*.java'| xargs -0 -e grep -n -e 
'GenericAction' | grep -v 'EGLGenericAction' | grep -v 
'GenericActionModel' | grep -v 'GenericActionCodeGenContrib' RET

Q RET

GenericAction RET

ActionClass RET

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* Re: Re: isearch-regexp-in-all-matching-files-in-tree?
  2002-10-14 18:55 isearch-regexp-in-all-matching-files-in-tree? Thomas L Roche
@ 2002-10-15 15:37 ` Bill Pringlemeir
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Bill Pringlemeir @ 2002-10-15 15:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: David Forrest, help-gnu-emacs, help-emacs-windows


>> Dave Forrest 10/14/2002 02:37 PM
 >> Would the Operate/Query replace in marked files Q or
 >> dired-do-query-replace do what you need?

 Thomas> No, because it requires marking the matching files first, but
 Thomas> if there's a way to do that, I could (manually) chain the two
 Thomas> operations.

C-h f -> "dired-mark-files-regex"

   dired-mark-files-regexp is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
   `dired'.  (dired-mark-files-regexp REGEXP &optional MARKER-CHAR)

   Mark all files matching REGEXP for use in later commands.  A prefix
   argument means to unmark them instead.  `.' and `..' are never
   marked.

   REGEXP is an Emacs regexp, not a shell wildcard.  Thus, use `\.o$'
   for object files--just `.o' will mark more than you might think.

Emacs knows.

Bill Pringlemeir.







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