Re: creating a tags file for interactive search and replace regexp

[Mathias Dahl]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>     Is there a way to do the dired-do-query-replace-regexp based on marked
>     files in the standard buffer list? ... The buffer list
>     will already have all the files I want and only the files I want.
>
> Maybe I misunderstand your question, but you seem to have answered it
> yourself.
>
> `Q' (`dired-do-query-replace-regexp') in Dired does query replace on the
> marked files. If you want to use it on all files displayed in Dired, then
> mark all those files: `t' (`dired-do-toggle') will do that if all of the
> files are unmarked to start with.

His problem was that he did not have those files marked in dired, he
had them in some sort of output from an external program.