> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:26:50 -0600 > From: "Scott Jaderholm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm looking for a simple, interactive way to do four basic types of > searches from within Emacs on Windows.
There's more than one way of doing this in Emacs. Lennart suggested a few; let me suggest others: > Search: > 1 - directory for file named "string" > 2 - directory for file containing "string" These two can be handled by the `% m <regexp> RET' command in Dired. > 3 - file for lines containing "string" A single file? then "M-x occur" would be the best, I think. If you need to find several files with matching lines, try `% g REGEXP RET' in Dired: it will mark all matching files, and you can then visit them or do some operation on them using other Dired commands. There's also `A REGEXP RET', which searches files that are already marked (perhaps because their names matched a pattern used with `% m'). > 4 - and replace all occurrences of "string" in files in directory For this, I recommend `Q <regexp> RET <replacement> RET' in Dired.
