global search and replace

Erik Price eprice at ptc.com
Tue May 13 12:31:46 EDT 2003


Erik Price wrote:
> 
> 
> bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> 
>> On 13 May 2003, at 10:53am, greg.rundlett at buzgate.org wrote:
>>
>>> But what I really want is to have this integrated into my editor.
>>
>>
>>
>>   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).

Upon closer look, it seems that I may be wrong about it not opening up 
the modified files into a buffer........ sorry if this mislead anyone.


Erik




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