[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Fri May 15 12:24:56 UTC 2009


On 13 May 2009, James Hawtin stated:
> The one thing I find VI very good for is wacking the same change into
> multiple file, such as an include file change, vi *.c do change and grab
> into the buffer, :w :n paste :w :n etc..... and normally I use emacs for
> editing source files. The way howeverit loads multiple files into different
> buffers just do not make it work well in this case.

Look for 'global-replace', in globrep.el (on the Emacs Lisp List).
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