Re: `Q' in Dired - be able to skip the rest of one file and move onto the next

[Bastien]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>> Even so, it might not be bad to provide a key to skip to the next file
>> without exiting query-replace.
>
> Another problem I have with `Q' is that it requires typing `!' in every
> file to replace all occurrences.  So if I want to replace all occurrences
> in ALL marked files at once without a query, I need typing `!' as many times
> as there are marked files.
>
> Maybe, when started by `Q', query-replace should apply `!' to all marked 
> files,
> and a new key `Y' should replace all remaining occurrences in the current 
> file,
> and a new key `N' should skip the current file as Miles has already proposed.

Agreed.  

There is also this little annoyance: when replacing all occurrences in
the *last* marked file, hitting `!' always returns this error:
 
  "All files processed"

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Bastien