Re: Interative batch query-replace question

[Joel J. Adamson]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:

> If you could give a short description of your task,
> that may help to find the code.
>
> AFAIK `dired-' is designed to be called from the
> dired-buffer. If you do query-replace from a program,
> you probably should use other functions.
>
>
> Andreas Röhler
>
>> The problem is:
>>  (defun batch-query-replace-regexp()
>>    (interactive)
>>      (switch-to-buffer "*Find*")
>>      (dired-do-query-replace-regexp "jp\\.co" "jp.co2")
>> ->can't reach here     (switch-to-buffer "*Find*")
>>       (dired-do-query-replace-regexp "java" "java2")
>>  )
>>
>> Ke Lu <lu@luxdo.jp> writes:

I'm coming in late on this convo, but AFAIK dired and ibuffer do their
own "batch" query-replace-regexp functions.

Joel
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