search and replacement at once in some buffers

search and replacement at once in some buffers

[Luis O. Silva]

Dear Emacs Community,

I want to use some of the search and replacement commands,
viz.

`search-forward', `search-backward', `isearch-forward',
`isearch-backward', `query-replace', `replace-regexp',
`replace-string'

at once in a predefined list of buffers, just in the same way
in which these commands are used in the current buffer. This
means that if I do `query-replace-some-buffers', for instance,
I'll be prompted with the list of buffers and then the first
buffer in that list will become the current buffer and
`query-replace' will run throughout it until the
end. Afterwards the second buffer in the list will become the
current buffer and so on. I think I could write the
corresponding elisp functions, but, since I'm not a programmer
(just a bad mathematician), I'd like to know whether someone
has already written similar functions and has contributed with
a package.

Thanks in advance,
luis

-- 
Luis Octavio Silva P.
St. Petersburg State University.
66/3 Botanicheskaya St., Apt.119/2
Stary Peterhof
St. Petersburg, Russia.

Re: search and replacement at once in some buffers

[Friedrich Dominicus]

"Luis O. Silva" <silva@paloma.spbu.ru> writes:

see if ibuffer works for you there you can mark buffers and after that
you can run a bunch of program on it. 

That's all
Regards
Friedrich

Re: search and replacement at once in some buffers

[Bernd Wolter]

"Luis O. Silva" <silva@paloma.spbu.ru> writes:

> Dear Emacs Community,
> 
> I want to use some of the search and replacement commands,
> viz.
> 
> `search-forward', `search-backward', `isearch-forward',
> `isearch-backward', `query-replace', `replace-regexp',
> `replace-string'
> 
> at once in a predefined list of buffers, just in the same way
> in which these commands are used in the current buffer. 

I think you may find dired's Q command helpful (also look at the
different marking commands).

,----[ To be found by "C-h i RET m emacs RET m dired -> "Operating on Files"" ]
| `Q REGEXP <RET> TO <RET>'
|      Perform `query-replace-regexp' on each of the specified files,
|      replacing matches for REGEXP with the string TO
|      (`dired-do-query-replace-regexp').
`----

HTH

bernd

Re: search and replacement at once in some buffers

[kgold]

If you will accept "files" instead of "buffers", use dired-mode,
mark the files you want to work on, and use the "Q" command.

"Luis O. Silva" <silva@paloma.spbu.ru> writes:
> Dear Emacs Community,
> 
> I want to use some of the search and replacement commands,
> viz.
> 
> `search-forward', `search-backward', `isearch-forward',
> `isearch-backward', `query-replace', `replace-regexp',
> `replace-string'
> 
> at once in a predefined list of buffers, just in the same way
> in which these commands are used in the current buffer. This
> means that if I do `query-replace-some-buffers', for instance,
> I'll be prompted with the list of buffers and then the first
> buffer in that list will become the current buffer and
> `query-replace' will run throughout it until the
> end. Afterwards the second buffer in the list will become the
> current buffer and so on. I think I could write the
> corresponding elisp functions, but, since I'm not a programmer
> (just a bad mathematician), I'd like to know whether someone
> has already written similar functions and has contributed with
> a package.


-- 
-- 
Ken Goldman   kgold@watson.ibm.com   914-784-7646

Re: search and replacement at once in some buffers

[Luis O. Silva]

Hi Friedrich,

On 06 Nov 2002 14:41:38 +0100, Friedrich Dominicus writes:

   FD> see if ibuffer works for you there you can mark buffers and
   FD> after that you can run a bunch of program on it.

I didn't find ibuffer.el in my emacs system (Emacs
21.1.1)...

... Nevertheless I found it on the net. This add-on says
that it is part of Emacs, so I suppose that it is included in
the new versions.

Thank you very much for your help. It seems to be what I need.

Best regards,
luis


-- 
Luis Octavio Silva P.
St. Petersburg State University.
66/3 Botanicheskaya St., Apt.119/2
Stary Peterhof
St. Petersburg, Russia.

Re: search and replacement at once in some buffers

[Luis O. Silva]

Hi Ken,

On 6 Nov 2002 18:34:19 GMT, kgold  writes:

   kgold> If you will accept "files" instead of "buffers", use
   kgold> dired-mode, mark the files you want to work on, and
   kgold> use the "Q" command.

Yes I was indeed missing this. This command is helpful to me, but I
think that the best solution to my problem is to use ibuffer
(as was suggested by Friedrich). I haven't tried it, but if it
has the "Q" command I'll be simply happy.

Thank you very much for your help. (I'm also expressing my
gratitude to Bernd)

Best regards,
luis


-- 
Luis Octavio Silva P.
St. Petersburg State University.
66/3 Botanicheskaya St., Apt.119/2
Stary Peterhof
St. Petersburg, Russia.