On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 13:47:07 at 01:47:07PM -0500, Satish Balay (balay@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Using an editor is always preferable. > > Uh??? Even on hundreds of files? > > > > I'll sugest emacs with etags (this way you can confirm edits > > before they happen) > > Thanks for the uber-cool etags trick, which I admit I'd never > imagined. Still, are you recommending an approach based on manual > confirmation on every link in many, many files? Sometimes you'd like to make sure the search reg-expression doesn't have any false postives. In this case some confirmation is useful. You can speed up things in emacs as well (after going through a few files - 'expression' has no bugs) a '!' for each file will do. I don't know if there is a way to specify 'all files without prompt'. If there are a 100 files which have a positive match during the search - you need a 100 '!' key strokes.. - a bit annoying - but shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes. I guess the tool you are more comfortable using would be your first preference.. Satish
