Re: HTML Editing in Emacs

[Michael Slass]

Sam Peterson <skpeterson@ucdavis.edu> writes:

>Hi folks,
>
>I've using html-helper-mode with Emacs to create a few web pages of
>mine.  I'm beginning to get the hang of it and I'm really starting to
>like it, been writing macros, etc.  However, there's one thing I
>really need that I'm not sure how to provide.
>
>If I have several web pages that cross reference each other, or an
>image referenced from several web pages, and I'd like to rename or
>move one of these files, I need to manually update all references to
>it.  I need a facility that could move and rename files and update all
>references for me.
>
>Bloated web site tools such as Dreamweaver and Frontpage provide this.
>I hate these tools, but this particular mechanism is very nice.  Is
>there any such "site" tools for Emacs, or if not for Emacs, is there a
>nice minimalistic external program that could provide this facility,
>and thereby it would be an easy task of just writing a few elisp
>functions to interface with it?


The quickest and dirtiest way, if all the html files are in the same
directory, is to mark the html files in dired, and then hit Q, which
runs a query-replace on all the marked files.
-- 
Mike Slass