From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Peterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: HTML Editing in Emacs Date: 13 Nov 2002 23:45:14 -0800 Organization: UC Davis: Hart Interdisciplinary Programs Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037296274 29036 80.91.224.249 (14 Nov 2002 17:51:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:51:14 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18CO92-0007YA-00 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:51:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18CEkZ-0001zL-00; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 02:49:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!ucdavis!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: culturalstudies.ucdavis.edu Original-X-Trace: woodrow.ucdavis.edu 1037259914 6762 169.237.88.207 (14 Nov 2002 07:45:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ucdavis.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 07:45:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107029 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3583 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3583 Michael Slass writes: > Sam Peterson writes: > > >Hi folks, > > > >I've using html-helper-mode with Emacs to create a few web pages of > >mine. I'm beginning to get the hang of it and I'm really starting > >to like it, been writing macros, etc. However, there's one thing I > >really need that I'm not sure how to provide. > > > >If I have several web pages that cross reference each other, or an > >image referenced from several web pages, and I'd like to rename or > >move one of these files, I need to manually update all references > >to it. I need a facility that could move and rename files and > >update all references for me. > > > >Bloated web site tools such as Dreamweaver and Frontpage provide > >this. I hate these tools, but this particular mechanism is very > >nice. Is there any such "site" tools for Emacs, or if not for > >Emacs, is there a nice minimalistic external program that could > >provide this facility, and thereby it would be an easy task of just > >writing a few elisp functions to interface with it? > > > The quickest and dirtiest way, if all the html files are in the same > directory, is to mark the html files in dired, and then hit Q, which > runs a query-replace on all the marked files. Hmm, I see great potential there. That was a little more simple than I'd hoped for but I imagine it gets the job done. I was kind of hoping for something that would map out my site and give me a list of references that I could change if I wanted to. Any recommendations? -- Sam Peterson skpeterson@ucdavis.edu UC Davis, CA