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dired-do-query-replace-regex replace ALL |
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Sat, 17 May 2008 03:26:26 -0700 |
Emacs suggestion:
when in dired mode in the processing of doing dired-do-query-replace-
regexp (shortcut Q), it offers the ability to do replacement without
asking on the current file, by pressing the ! key, but it would be
nice to have:
(1) the ability to do ALL replacements on ALL files without further
asking.
(2) the ability to not do any replacement on the current file.
I use dired-do-query-replace-regexp few times a week, typically on
tens of files, but maybe once in a month i do it over hundreds or
thuosands of files on a website.
Often, after some replacement, it becomes obvious that it is safe to
do ALL replacement for ALL files. When this is needed, typically i
can just hold down the ! key. But when the number of files is
hundreds or more, typically there will be seveal 5 second delays
where i assume emacs is doing garbage collection. The bottom line is
that, holding down ! is not a good solution because i end up having
to wait a total of maybe 20 or 30 seconds during the whole operation.
For this reason, i often abort the operation, then switch to a perl
or python script i've written that does blind find/replace on all
files. This will finish the job on thousands of files within 5
seconds. But I couldn't reply on this since often i need
interactively see and confirm the replacements, which emacs provides.
(emacs also lets me view the change file afterwards or decide to save
them...etc, which i won't be able to do with perl...)
So, it would be nice, if emacs's dired-do-query-replace-regexp offer
the option to do all replacement on all files.
Perhaps this can be introduced as pressing the @ key.
For suggestion item (2), the scenario is that sometimes i have a big
file and it is apparent that i don't want any replacement to happen
on that file. As things are, i have to repeatedly pressing n while
paying attention not to go over to the next file. This is a tiring
process.
dired-do-query-replace-regexp is very nice and i've been using it for
2 years. For just tens of files the above isn't a problem. But when
doing few hundred files, and on tens of replacement pairs (i.e. using
dired-do-query-replace-regexp tens of times, each time on hundreds of
files), the above features seems a very good one to have. It seems
also a logical feature complementating the various recursive edit and
edit-replacement-text currently provided by emacs.
PS some background... I'm doing on static websites, which has few
hundred or thousand files, such as systimatically changing a style
markup, etc. In the past 2 days, i spent entire 2 days using dired-do-
query-replace-regexp (in combination with perl and python script).
Thanks.
Xah
address@hidden
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
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Re: bug#267: dired-do-query-replace-regex replace ALL |
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Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:37:40 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> Emacs suggestion:
>
> when in dired mode in the processing of doing dired-do-query-replace-
> regexp (shortcut Q), it offers the ability to do replacement without asking
> on the current file, by pressing the ! key, but it would be nice to have:
>
> (1) the ability to do ALL replacements on ALL files without further asking.
> (2) the ability to not do any replacement on the current file.
According to http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/modernization_find_replace_multi.html
this suggestion is implemented in emacs 23.1, released on 2009-07,
so bug#267 can be closed. Thanks.
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