How do I get global-grep-and-replace to work?

How do I get global-grep-and-replace to work?

[Cinnamon]

Hi,

I've a large number of files that need one line changing.

I tried global-grep-and-replace, which asks me what I want to change,
what I want to change this to, and then asks me which files.

I get a neat buffer with all the offending lines in all the files
listed, then it askes me Do you want to [replace, edit, search, quit]:

When I say replace, it moves to the first buffer onto the line, but
instead of changing those lines for me automagically, it just sits
there.  Also, I'm not sure why its actually going into the file and
showing me -- I already said to just replace this with that in *.c, so
no need to show me the files, just go ahead and do it :)

What is going on?  And is there a way I can just coax Xemacs into
changing the lines in those files without any more work for me?

thanks,

Cinnamon

Re: How do I get global-grep-and-replace to work?

[Klaus Berndl]

I do not know any function `global-grep-and-replace' neither in Emacs nor in
XEmacs. In which package is this function located?

Thanks,
Klaus

On 26 Sep 2003, oisin@ukfsn.org wrote:



>  Hi,
>  
>  I've a large number of files that need one line changing.
>  
>  I tried global-grep-and-replace, which asks me what I want to change,
>  what I want to change this to, and then asks me which files.
>  
>  I get a neat buffer with all the offending lines in all the files
>  listed, then it askes me Do you want to [replace, edit, search, quit]:
>  
>  When I say replace, it moves to the first buffer onto the line, but
>  instead of changing those lines for me automagically, it just sits
>  there.  Also, I'm not sure why its actually going into the file and
>  showing me -- I already said to just replace this with that in *.c, so
>  no need to show me the files, just go ahead and do it :)
>  
>  What is going on?  And is there a way I can just coax Xemacs into
>  changing the lines in those files without any more work for me?
>  
>  thanks,
>  
>  Cinnamon

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Re: How do I get global-grep-and-replace to work?

[Cinnamon]

Klaus Berndl <klaus.berndl@sdm.de> wrote in message news:<u3cej3dgh.fsf@sdm.de>...
> I do not know any function `global-grep-and-replace' neither in Emacs nor in
> XEmacs. In which package is this function located?
> 
> Thanks,
> Klaus
> 

Hi,  

its in a file called globrep.el.  I'm not sure if that is a standard
file or where I picked it up -- someone else used to maintain the
Xemacs here till recently.  I can give you a copy of it if its useful.
 Would be nice if it worked cause I often have to replace stuff in
files like that, life would be much easier this way :)

Cinnamon

Re: How do I get global-grep-and-replace to work?

[Joe Corneli]

#!/bin/bash

# ;)

# Examples:    

# jed "I have some bad news." "So, how's the weather out there?" *.txt
# jed Cornelli Corneli that_letter.txt

REENTER=`echo "$@"|  sed -e "s/$1 $2 //"`

for FILE in $REENTER
do
  cat $FILE | sed -e "s/$1/$2/g" > p_jed.out
  mv p_jed.out $FILE
done;

Re: How do I get global-grep-and-replace to work?

[Jens Schmidt]

oisin@ukfsn.org (Cinnamon) writes:

> I tried global-grep-and-replace, which asks me what I want to change,
> what I want to change this to, and then asks me which files.

A more standard alternative may be:

1. Use `find-grep-dired' to get a Dired buffer that lists files
   matching a certain regexp.
2. Mark all files in that buffer for replacement (for example,
   using %-m (`dired-mark-files-regexp') to mark by regexp).
3. Still in the Dired buffer, do a Q
   (`dired-do-query-replace-regexp') to process all marked files.
4. Do a C-x s (`save-some-buffers') do save the results.

This works at least for Emacs 21.1, not sure about XEmacs.

Jens