From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: AndyJB Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Multi-line replace across several/all buffers Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 04:05:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6222809.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157823632 14632 80.91.229.2 (9 Sep 2006 17:40:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 17:40:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 09 19:40:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GM6oS-0001IV-Uv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:40:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GM6oS-0000VY-BP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GM0ex-0005Ld-CX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:06:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GM0ew-0005Ia-84 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GM0ew-0005IG-3x for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [72.21.53.35] (helo=talk.nabble.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GM0fj-0001r1-Sk for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:06:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [72.21.53.38] (helo=jubjub.nabble.com) by talk.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GM0et-00067e-QG for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 04:05:59 -0700 Original-To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Nabble-From: tnel@xemaps.com X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:40:02 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37250 Archived-At: Hi Can someone tell me if there's a way to do a multi-line search and replace across a number of buffers/files? Or will I have to write my own? Nothing I've found so far does what I want - I have a block of text which occurs in a number of files and I want to replace it with a new block across all of those files. Thanks Andy -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Multi-line-replace-across-several-all-buffers-tf2243581.html#a6222809 Sent from the Emacs - Help forum at Nabble.com.