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Emacs provides several commands for performing search-and-replace operations. In addition to the simple M-x replace-string command, there is M-% Tracker – Gnome tool for indexing and search; LocateFilesAnywhere to find files on your file system, when you don't know where they M-% string newstring : Replace some occurrences of string with newstring It works like replace-regexp except that it queries like query-replace . 18 Jan 2018 Emacs will find and display each occurrence of the search string and ask you for further instructions. You can respond with any of the following Next: Documentation for etags, Previous: Using regular expressions, Up: Common requests. 5.37 How do I perform a replace operation across more than one file? dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace ( Q ), which allows users to replace regular Do query-replace-regexp on marked files, including in marked subdirs. See the Emacs manual, node Replacement and Case, for more Emacs: Interactively Find and Replace String Patterns on Multiple Files. 14 Feb 2010. This is such an invaluable tutorial! I posted it before on twitter but here it is 11 Sep 201330 Mar 2008 Here are the most useful find replace commands for current file. [see Emacs: Regex Tutorial]; Alt + x dired-do-query-replace-regexp (In dired, To do the replacement on all files without further asking, type Y. (Emacs 23 only)