global search and replace
Greg Rundlett
greg.rundlett at buzgate.org
Tue May 13 12:24:32 EDT 2003
On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 11:48, Erik Price wrote:
> > You would need to open all <large-number-of-files> into your editor.
> >
> > Is that desirable?
>
> I thought that many text editors let you perform a search/replace on all
> files in a specified directory? jEdit offers PCRE regexes to do this,
> as well as all subdirectories, and doesn't open up the files into a
> buffer in order to do so (so yes, you should be able to perform a search
> on a few hundred files at a time without running out of memory).
>
Exactly what I was talking about. I don't want to _open_ a huge number
of files, I just want to edit them (hehe).
You can do this in editors like HomeSite, and apparently in jEdit too.
Thanks to Jason Stephenson, I now know of KFileReplace. It is a KDE
graphical utility for doing exactly what I want. Jason has offered to
integrate KFileReplace into QuantaPlus if time allows him to. It is on
the todo list for the project.
What a testament to the OpenSource model. I broadcast my needs
and immediately a developer steps up to add a new feature to the
'product' that I need. No software vendor could boast of such
responsiveness.
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