Re: global-replace to include linked files?

[lee]

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

> I have a master document with 14 files linked into it like this
>
> \include{020-ob2014}
>
> is it possible to do a "global-replace" of
> ╭────
> │\begin{verbatim}
> ╰────
> to
> ╭────
> │\begin{lstlisting}[frame=single]
> ╰────
> please?
>
> I tried "M-x replace-string" but that wasn't able to follow the
> import links to the subsidiary files.

Hm, multisearch[1] is capable of following "include" statements.  It`s
designed for "#include", and you can easily change or expand it to go
for "\include{.*}" instead.

Look at multisearch-make-directory-files-list in [2], line 333:


,----
|           (multisearch-make-token-list buffer
|                                        "^#include\\s-*[\"<]")))
`----


You can probably get away with changing that to something like


            (multisearch-make-token-list buffer
                                         "^\\\include\\s-*{")))


The function multisearch-make-directory-files-list gives you a list of
the relevant files, and you can simply run your own function that does
the replacement you need in each file.


[1]: https://github.com/lee-/emacs
[2]: https://github.com/lee-/emacs/blob/master/multisearch/multisearch.el


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