Re: isearch-regexp-in-all-matching-files-in-tree?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Thomas L Roche wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Tom Roche wrote:
>
> > > Use case: I'm in a dired buffer in GNU Emacs 21.1.1 on w2k. I
> > > want to _interactively_ search for the string 'GenericAction'
> > > (and replace with 'ActionClass') in all files with names
> > > matching '*.java' anywhere in the directory tree below the
> > > current directory.
>
> Dave Forrest 10/14/2002 02:37 PM
>
> > Would the Operate/Query replace in marked files Q
> > or
> > dired-do-query-replace do what you need?
>
> No, because it requires marking the matching files first, but if
> there's a way to do that, I could (manually) chain the two
> operations.


How about

M-x find-dired RET RET -type f -name "*.java"
C-x h
M-x dired-mark-files-in-region
Q GenericAction RET ActionClass RET

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