"Francis J. Monari, Esquire" <monarifj....@juno.com> writes:
> Due to file relocation on the server, I have a number of broken links in > an org document. (problem: broken links.) > > How can I / Is it possible to search and replace on links? > (expectation: I would like to use search and replace to fix the links.) > > I have tried search and replace, but emacs advises me that links have > been filtered out. (issue: emacs reports that results from the search > are filtered-out.) > > The answer might be a "works as expected". I would like to remain > within the org framework (but using standard search and replace) and > accomplish this task. > Nevertheless, one-time global changes, like this, are best handled by using tools other than an interactive editor. One of the strengths of org-mode is that org files are plain-text and can therefore be manipulated by many tools: I would suggest a simple sed script (sed is available even on Windows through cygwin I think) - something like this sed 's/old/new/g' infile > outfile It is even more advantageous if you have more than one file to change. Emacs has mechanisms for doing something to many files, but none of them beats a simple shell loop: for x in file1 file2 file3 ;do sed 's/old/new/g' $x > $x.new done -- Nick
