> A good interface for mass-replacing is query-replace. You can just do
>
> M-x find-dired RET -name '*.el' RET t Q
>
> and use a function call like \,(copyright-fix-years \0)
> in the replacement part.
BTW, currently `dired-do-query-replace-regexp' doesn't use
query-replace history variables. It adds both from-string and
to-string to the default history.
The following patch allows it to use `query-replace-read-args'
to read query-replace arguments. It also replaces too generic
argument name `string' with `prompt'.
Index: lisp/dired-aux.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/dired-aux.el,v
retrieving revision 1.135
diff -c -r1.135 dired-aux.el
*** lisp/dired-aux.el 11 Jul 2005 04:24:46 -0000 1.135
--- lisp/dired-aux.el 4 Aug 2005 19:55:22 -0000
***************
*** 2208,2214 ****
If you exit (\\[keyboard-quit], RET or q), you can resume the query replace
with the command \\[tags-loop-continue]."
(interactive
! "sQuery replace in marked files (regexp): \nsQuery replace %s by: \nP")
(dolist (file (dired-get-marked-files nil nil 'dired-nondirectory-p))
(let ((buffer (get-file-buffer file)))
(if (and buffer (with-current-buffer buffer
--- 2210,2219 ----
If you exit (\\[keyboard-quit], RET or q), you can resume the query replace
with the command \\[tags-loop-continue]."
(interactive
! (let ((common
! (query-replace-read-args
! "Query replace regexp in marked files" t t)))
! (list (nth 0 common) (nth 1 common) (nth 2 common))))
(dolist (file (dired-get-marked-files nil nil 'dired-nondirectory-p))
(let ((buffer (get-file-buffer file)))
(if (and buffer (with-current-buffer buffer
Index: lisp/replace.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/replace.el,v
retrieving revision 1.220
diff -u -r1.220 replace.el
--- lisp/replace.el 19 Jul 2005 11:41:20 -0000 1.220
+++ lisp/replace.el 4 Aug 2005 19:55:55 -0000
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
(defun query-replace-descr (string)
(mapconcat 'isearch-text-char-description string ""))
-(defun query-replace-read-from (string regexp-flag)
+(defun query-replace-read-from (prompt regexp-flag)
"Query and return the `from' argument of a query-replace operation.
The return value can also be a pair (FROM . TO) indicating that the user
wants to replace FROM with TO."
@@ -107,10 +107,10 @@
query-replace-from-history-variable))))
(read-from-minibuffer
(if (and lastto lastfrom)
- (format "%s (default %s -> %s): " string
+ (format "%s (default %s -> %s): " prompt
(query-replace-descr lastfrom)
(query-replace-descr lastto))
- (format "%s: " string))
+ (format "%s: " prompt))
nil nil nil
query-replace-from-history-variable
nil t t))))
@@ -173,22 +173,22 @@
to))
-(defun query-replace-read-to (from string regexp-flag)
+(defun query-replace-read-to (from prompt regexp-flag)
"Query and return the `to' argument of a query-replace operation."
(query-replace-compile-replacement
(save-excursion
(read-from-minibuffer
- (format "%s %s with: " string (query-replace-descr from))
+ (format "%s %s with: " prompt (query-replace-descr from))
nil nil nil
query-replace-to-history-variable from t t))
regexp-flag))
-(defun query-replace-read-args (string regexp-flag &optional noerror)
+(defun query-replace-read-args (prompt regexp-flag &optional noerror)
(unless noerror
(barf-if-buffer-read-only))
- (let* ((from (query-replace-read-from string regexp-flag))
+ (let* ((from (query-replace-read-from prompt regexp-flag))
(to (if (consp from) (prog1 (cdr from) (setq from (car from)))
- (query-replace-read-to from string regexp-flag))))
+ (query-replace-read-to from prompt regexp-flag))))
(list from to current-prefix-arg)))
(defun query-replace (from-string to-string &optional delimited start end)
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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