RE: [h-e-w] Global search/replace across files?

[Neil Gow]

If you do not want to use Dired then you could try looking at 'globrep.el',
this allows you to use the results of a grep-find, change the found data
using 'replace-string' etc.. and then put the data back (globrep.el provides
the functions to put the changed data back).

I use it a lot and although it does have some quirks, it works very well and
intuitively.

Neil

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Peter Davis
Sent: 15 June 2002 15:44
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Subject: [h-e-w] Global search/replace across files?



I'm sure there must be a tool for searching and replacing based on regexps
across files.  I just don't know what it is.  Can anyone enlighten me?

I'm trying to build nmh with cygwin, and the makefiles all contain

         SHELL = /bin/sh

For some reason, they only work if I change this to

         SHELL = sh

but there's a whole tree of makefiles that all contain this
string.  (NOTE:  I can run 'sh', but for some reason, it doesn't run from
the makefiles and I get an error.)

Thanks!

-pd



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