From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jens Schmidt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do I get global-grep-and-replace to work? Date: 29 Sep 2003 10:54:45 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064827730 3680 80.91.224.253 (29 Sep 2003 09:28:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:28:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 29 11:28:48 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A3uKm-0006kg-00 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:28:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A3u8i-00088u-Km for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 05:16:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.sanjose1.Level3.net!Level3.net!news.oracle.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 140.84.186.193 Original-X-Trace: news.oracle.com 1064826267 140.84.186.193 (Mon, 29 Sep 2003 02:04:27 PDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 02:04:27 PDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:116934 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12860 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12860 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