Comments on: Emacs Nerdery: Search & replace across files

By: hsuh

hsuh — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:53:56 +0000

No, if its like moccur-edit you can just query-replace on the grep buffer and then apply changes.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:58:20 +0000

find-grep-dired is mentioned in http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredFindInLisp — I’ve created http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FindGrepDiredSearchAndReplace , please hack as appropriate.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:30:34 +0000

@Brian, This can work in some cases, but definitely wasn’t what I needed. It runs query-replace on every file in the tagfile. I have upwards of 2000 in mine, and they’re all on the other end of a tramp connection. It’s better to use grep-find to locate the exact files I want to change.

@rubikitch, That looks interesting, but it seems that you have to perform the edit by hand for each file.

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By: rubikitch

rubikitch — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:17:05 +0000

Do you know grep-edit.el?
It is located at EmacsWiki.

M-x install-elisp-from-emacswiki grep-edit.el

By: Brian Gough

Brian Gough — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:08:24 +0000

creating a tags file and using tags-query-replace works well if you want the set of files to be persistent. It’s useful if you have a set of files where you need to make changes on a regular basis.

By: aaron

aaron — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:57:22 +0000

Would you be willing to start a page on EmacsWiki called FindGrepDiredSearchAndReplace with what you’ve written?

This is the shell-fu you were looking for.

$ find -path ‘*/.svn’ -prune -o -type f -name ‘*.php’ -execdir grep -qFe ‘catch (FooException’ {} \; -execdir sed -i -e ‘s/catch (FooException/catch (BarException/g’ {} \;

You’re right, better for Emacs to handle the syntax.

By: Search and Replace in multiple files « Da Zhang’s Blog

Search and Replace in multiple files « Da Zhang’s Blog — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:01:51 +0000

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