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Re: need help with editing multiple files in a directory


From: Joel J. Adamson
Subject: Re: need help with editing multiple files in a directory
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:55:06 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

I know you asked this as a lisp question, but sed may be better at
accomplishing this, as long as you're on a Unix-like system.  On
Windows, sed would be terrible at this, since it doesn't exist ;)

Joel

bittna@gmail.com writes:

> Hello,
>   I have multiple files in a directory that need a line added at a
> certain point in the file.  I wrote a lisp expression to do it, but I
> have to load the file, then run the command on the buffer, the save
> the file and I lose my place.  I used dired to do a find and replace
> on all of the files I needed, but how do I run my lisp expression on
> all of the files?
>
> Also how do I loop through all the buffers using lisp and switch into
> each buffer and do something, then move to the next buffer?
>
> Thanks!!!
>

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Joel J. Adamson
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Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit
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