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

[Adis Franz ZFF TE-DS]

Is there a way to do this global search and replace across buffers instead
of files. E.g. by using the Buffer Menu instead of dired?

Best regards,
Franz

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr Francis J. Wright [SMTP:address@hidden
> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 7:09 PM
> To:   Peter Davis
> Cc:   address@hidden
> Subject:      Re: [h-e-w] Global search/replace across files?
> 
> From: "Peter Davis" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 3:44 PM
> 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?
> 
> Dired provides such a facility bound to the key Q, or see the bottom of
> the
> Operate menu.  I have found this very useful.
> 
> Q runs the command dired-do-query-replace-regexp
>    which is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `dired-aux'.
> [Arg list not available until function definition is loaded.]
> 
> Do `query-replace-regexp' of FROM with TO, on all marked files.
> Third arg DELIMITED (prefix arg) means replace only word-delimited
> matches.
> If you exit (C-g or ESC), you can resume the query replace
> with the command M-,.
> 
> > 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.)
> 
> Can you run /bin/sh using precisely that invocation?  Maybe there's a
> problem with your Cygwin mounts.  It might be better to try to fix that
> than
> hack a lot of files.
> 
> Francis
>