Re: `Q' in Dired - be able to skip the rest of one file and move onto the next

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Juri Linkov wrote:
>>>> Even so, it might not be bad to provide a key to skip to the next file
>>>> without exiting query-replace.
>>> Another problem I have with `Q' is that it requires typing `!' in every
>>> file to replace all occurrences.  So if I want to replace all occurrences
>>> in ALL marked files at once without a query, I need typing `!' as many times
>>> as there are marked files.
>>>
>>> Maybe, when started by `Q', query-replace should apply `!' to all marked files,
>>> and a new key `Y' should replace all remaining occurrences in the current file,
>>> and a new key `N' should skip the current file as Miles has already proposed.
>> Agreed.
> 
> I see that this useful feature is not yet implemented, so I have
> made a patch that implements multi-file query-replace UI.


Thanks for implementing this.