isearch-regexp-in-all-matching-files-in-tree?

isearch-regexp-in-all-matching-files-in-tree?

[Thomas L Roche]

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. 

How can I do this?

Re: isearch-regexp-in-all-matching-files-in-tree?

[Thomas L Roche]

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

Re: isearch-regexp-in-all-matching-files-in-tree?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Thomas L Roche wrote:

> 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.


How about

M-x find-dired RET RET -type f -name "*.java"
C-x h
M-x dired-mark-files-in-region
Q GenericAction RET ActionClass RET

-- 
<a href="mailto:&lt;kevinr&#64;ihs.com&gt;">Kevin Rodgers</a>

Re: isearch-regexp-in-all-matching-files-in-tree?

[Robert Mecklenburg]

TLR> Use case: I'm in a dired buffer in GNU Emacs 21.1.1 on w2k. I
TLR> want to _interactively_ search for the string 'GenericAction'
TLR> (and replace with 'ActionClass') in all files with names matching
TLR> '*.java' anywhere in the directory tree below the current
TLR> directory. 
TLR> 
TLR> How can I do this?

M-x find-dired <ret>			# Invoke find-dired
.					# on the current directory
-name '*.java'				# insert the *.java name pattern
-exec grep -q GenericAction {} \;	# edit the grep command

When the find command finishes mark all files as in any dired buffer.

Finally, use A (dired-do-search) to search them interactively.

Hope this helps,
-- 
Robert