Re: How to search whole buffer?

[Tassilo Horn]

Ulrich Scholz <d7@thispla.net> writes:

Hi Ulrich,

what you want is this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun my-replace ()
  "change escape sequences to umlauts"
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (goto-char 1)
    (while (search-forward "ß" nil t)
      (replace-match "ß" nil nil))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The `save-excursion' takes care that point is on the same position after
the replace and (goto-char 1) sets the point to the first position in
the buffer, so that the replace is done in the whole buffer.

HTH,
Tassilo
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