global search and replace
Erik Price
eprice at ptc.com
Tue May 13 12:31:46 EDT 2003
Erik Price wrote:
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>
> 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.
>>
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>> 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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