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Re: creating a tags file for interactive search and replace regexp
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Ryan Krauss |
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Re: creating a tags file for interactive search and replace regexp |
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Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:21:17 -0400 |
Thanks Eric, this seems like a good start.
It seems like your shell script is just passing a list of file names
or paths to etags. Is that true? If I already have a python script
that finds only the files I want, can I just use python to call etags
file1.tex file2.tex ... ?
Is there a way to do the dired-do-query-replace-regexp based on marked
files in the standard buffer list? The reason I ask is that it is
very easy for me to use python to open emacs with only the files I
want (basically doing emacs file1.tex file2.tex ...). The buffer list
will already have all the files I want and only the files I want.
Basically, I have a directory tree with my thesis in it. I want to
search and replace the Latex files I actually use in the thesis. But
the tree is a mess with many files I don't think I use but don't dare
delete yet and many subfolders. So, there are .tex files everywhere.
I have written a python script that parses the main Latex file looking
for \input lines and based on the \input files (and the files they
input), python gives me a list of the *.tex files actually used.
There are 40 "good" *.tex files and over 1300 total *.tex files in the
tree. So, I really need to do something with the list of
filenames/paths coming out of Python - i.e I need to pass the list to
something, generate my own etags file, or work on the emacs buffer
list.
I know I have made this mess myself, but can someone show me a good
way out of it?
Thanks,
Ryan
On 6/19/06, Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> wrote:
>>>>> "Ryan" == Ryan Krauss <ryanlists@gmail.com> writes:
Ryan> I want to do an interactive regexp search and replace on a
Ryan> list of files. I don't want to search all the files in one
Ryan> directory and the files are actually in many different
Ryan> directories. How do I do this search and replace on a
Ryan> specified list? I think I need a list of tag files. But I
Ryan> cannot find an example of the syntax of such a tag file.
Sometimes I make a TAGS file, and then do tags-query-replace. Read
the man page for etags; it's pretty flexible. Here's an example of a
shell script that creates a TAGS file for certain files only:
find . \
\( \
-type d \
\( -iname boring -prune \) \
-o \( -iname also-boring -prune \) \
\) \
-o \
\( \
-type f \
\( \
-name '*.pas' \
-o -name '*.dfm' \
-o -name '*.p[lm]' \
-o -name '*.js' \
-o -name '*.sql' \
\) -print \
\) | etags -
You can also do "find-dired", then mark any or all of the resulting
files, then type Q (dired-do-query-replace-regexp).
--
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why Goofy is a person and Pluto is a dog.
-- Roger Ebert
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