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Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:

> () Patrick Drechsler <patrick@pdrechsler.de>
> () Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:27:48 +0200
>
>    better way [...] ?
>
> perhaps wdired-mode (via command wdired-change-to-wdired-mode).

thanks a lot! This is a lot simpler than trying to find a regexp...

Cheers

Patrick
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