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From: | Robert Pluim |
Subject: | Re: Search and replace for a single file using a pattern file |
Date: | Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:28:42 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes: > I have some horrible logs where integers are printed for states and > I want to do a global search and replace on the file to eg replace > integer x with a string. > > I can obviously do individually using c-m-% but that is fairly > laborious. So use of a search and replace mapping in a text file > would be really convenient. > > Is this possible? any suggestions? Which bit is laborious? The query portion of C-M-%? You can hit ! after the first match, or else do M-: (replace-string "from" "to") multiple times (or wrap that in a function over your list of replacements) Robert
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