Re: wide-edit.el for gnu emacs?

[Óscar Fuentes]

the grue <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> some time ago, I was using the really nice "wide-edit.el" as a very
> practical renaming tool. Unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore with
> emacs23 or later:
>
> http://www.emacsforum.dk/JesperPedersen/handout/wide-edit.el
>
> When I start wide-edit-mode, I get this error:
>
> let: Symbol's function definition is void: extent-list
>
> It seems, extent-list is only supported by xemacs, not gnu emacs. I
> have a little bit of elisp knowledge, but it is by far not enough to
> fix wide-edit.el
>
> Can someone help me with porting wide-edit to gnu emacs?

You may be interested on grep-edit.el, which does the same and works on
modern Emacsen:

http://www.bookshelf.jp/elc/grep-edit.el

multi-occur and multi-occur-in-matching-buffers, which are included on
Emacs 24, may be interesting to you too.