On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Tom Roche wrote:
Use case: I'm in a dired buffer in GNU Emacs 21.1.1 on w2k. I
want to _interactively_ search for the string 'GenericAction'
(and replace with 'ActionClass') in all files with names
matching '*.java' anywhere in the directory tree below the
current directory.
Dave Forrest 10/14/2002 02:37 PM
Would the Operate/Query replace in marked files Q
or
dired-do-query-replace do what you need?
No, because it requires marking the matching files first, but if
there's a way to do that, I could (manually) chain the two
operations.