Re: Replacing text in multiple buffers

[lawrence mitchell]

Mark Redar wrote:

> Hi all,

> I'm searching for a way to replace text in all the
> buffers currently open, a global replace for all
> buffers.

> Is there a way to have a command operate on all the
> open buffers???

You could possibly utilise something like:

(defun map-buffers (function regexp)
  "Call FUNCTION on all buffers matching REGEXP."
  (dolist (buffer (buffer-list))
    (when (string-match regexp (buffer-name buffer))
      (funcall function buffer))))

You might then do something like:

(map-buffers #'some-function-to-replace "\\.c$"), to replace in
all buffers whose filename ends in .c.


I'm sure I've missed some builtin command though.
-- 
lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li>