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

[pd]

Thanks very much, Neil.  I'll look into it.  It sounds like what I was
looking for.

Cheers,

-pd


Neil Gow writes:
> 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
> To: address@hidden
> 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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