From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ryan Krauss" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: creating a tags file for interactive search and replace regexp Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:12:23 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150762375 2554 80.91.229.2 (20 Jun 2006 00:12:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:12:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 20 02:12:52 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 1FsTrD-0001Pa-WC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:12:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FsTrD-0001QU-Cj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:12:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FsTr1-0001QM-2U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:12:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FsTqz-0001Pk-MR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FsTqz-0001Pg-E4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:12:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.233] (helo=wr-out-0506.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FsU1O-0006Nn-2m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i3so454025wra for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:12:23 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=D6Og+p/ToGJQsm4gj8IXl8TKZ9YVrzzsb8A/1MPJCAGBxgIx8fSrlUDTL4oSmuD6V4Iud/i+DdWAcf1cT39S3PjKL/5owUFeaScHYtKqB5eODrXQdaEnESGU9EwyIGM/HWlDIpOorM7kVu2TQZ0GLgZGcF0y8UmvCGOdOLFJeL0= Original-Received: by 10.64.114.10 with SMTP id m10mr1743960qbc; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:12:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.64.47.13 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:12:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline 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:35548 Archived-At: I want to do an interactive regexp search and replace on a list of files. I don't want to search all the files in one directory and the files are actually in many different directories. How do I do this search and replace on a specified list? I think I need a list of tag files. But I cannot find an example of the syntax of such a tag file. Thanks, Ryan