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From: wmesard@oracle.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Multi-file replace (unconditional)
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.072529.18560@oracle.com>
Date: 8 Jan 91 07:25:29 GMT
References: <3617@archive.BBN.COM>
Reply-To: wmesard@oracle.com (Wayne Mesard)
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont CA
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nat%DRAO.NRC.CA@VM.TCS.TULANE.EDU (Natalie Prowse) writes:
>Hi, I am looking for a function to do an unconditional replace on
>every file/buffer that I have loaded in my current emacs session.
[...]
>Has someone written such a beast [for GNU Emacs]?

Piece o cake:

;; WMesard@Oracle.COM 1/7/90
(defun replace-string-all-buffers (from-string to-string &optional delimited)
  "Invoke replace-string on every part of every goll-darn buffer."
  (interactive "sReplace string: \nsReplace string %s with: \nP")
  (let ((bufs (buffer-list)))
    (while bufs
      (set-buffer (car bufs))
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (replace-string from-string to-string delimited)
      (setq bufs (cdr bufs))
      ))
  )

Now that I've given you the tool of your own destruction, let me ask
you: Are you sure this is what you want?  Have you tried
tags-query-replace?  Do you know that typing a bang ("!") during query
replace will silently replace all the remaining matches in that buffer?
That's always been powerful enough for me (and I like to change variable
and typedef names a lot).
--
Wayne();
WMesard@Oracle.COM