Re: In place (live) editing of matches - is there a package for it?

[Jambunathan K]

all.el in GNU's ELPA - http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/

If you are running recent Emacs-24 pretest builds, checkout
occur-edit-mode.

Btw, You may want to say Hi! to Carsten after reading this mail.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-10/msg00125.html

Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> writes:

> Recently I had to work multiple times with text files and it 
> involved search/replacing strings in the file multiple times.
>
> For example, if the file has the word "phone" in multiple places
> and I want to replace it with "phoning" then I go to the beginning
> of the file and replace all the matches with a search/replace
> command.
>
> It occurred to me it would be more convenient if I could just select
> the word (or a phrase) and use a command which allows me to live edit
> this region, so that all the changes I make within the selected part are
> reflected instantly at all the other places in the file which have
> the same text as the initial selection.
>
> Is there an existing package which does this?
>
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