Re: Interative batch query-replace question

[Ke Lu]

Thank you very much.
It is true,we needs two task.
> 1 - find the list of files
I do it by find-dired and mark it because
find-dired using os command "find" to find file and is powerful.

> 2 - operate on them
I do it by my-proc-one-query-replace-regexp.

(defun my-proc-one-query-replace-regexp (files from to)
  (dolist (cur-file files)
  (find-file cur-file)
  (goto-char 0)
  (query-replace-regexp from to))
  )

(defun my-batch-query-replace-regexp()
  "Muti-pattern query-replace-regrex on a dozen of files.
It must be called in dired buffer.
Mark some files then you can call this function."
  (interactive)
  (let ((files (dired-get-marked-files nil nil (lambda (file) (not 
(file-directory-p file)))))
        (patterns '(("ejb" . "ejb2")
                    ("java" . "java2")
                    ("sun2" . "sun3")
                    ;; Add any other patterns
                    )))
    (when files
      (while patterns
        (let ((pattern (car patterns)))
          (my-proc-one-query-replace-regexp files (car pattern) (cdr pattern))
          (setq patterns (cdr patterns))))
      )))

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

> Am Samstag, 1. Dezember 2007 10:11 schrieb Ke Lu:
>> Perhaps my explain is not quite enough.
>>
>> I want to query-replace some files.(not filename)
> ...
>
>
> So we have basically two tasks
>
> 1 - find the list of files
> 2 - operate on them
>
> Dired probably isn't TRT here, because it's for
> manually operation.
>
> Maybe run this at your dir to have some impression how
> it may start:
>
> (defun my-list-of-files ()
>   " "
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((my-endings-list '(".co$" ".java$")))
>     (dolist (el my-endings-list)
>       (let ((files (directory-files default-directory t el)))
>       (while files
>         (let ((file (car files)))
>           (when (file-exists-p file)
>             (when (y-or-n-p (concat "You agree to change \""file"\" later")))
>             (message "Later we will change name and contents of %s " file))
>           (setq files (cdr files))))))))
>
>
> Andreas Röhler