Re: Bug in minibuf ^N/^P for finding buffers

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: Jonathan Payne <http://www.marimba.com/~jpayne>
 > Date: Mon  Oct 28,  6:01pm
 >
 > > Having fast access to a next/previous buffer mechanism can be very handy
 > > when editing multiple files, but I suspect it's one of those things that
 > > may not seem all that useful until you've had it for a while and
 > > discovered your own uses. I find sometimes that using jove to mass edit
 > > a bunch of files is more convenient than writing a sed/awk or perl
 > > script to do the same thing. As an example, I once used jove to modify a
 > > whole pile of dns db files that had a bunch of changes that needed to be
 > > made. By recording a macro and playing it while flipping through the
 > > buffers, I got the job done quite quickly, and was able to hand edit the
 > > few instances of problems that weren't matched by the macro. 
 > 
 > I agree.  I admittedly use Emacs most of the times these days, but if
 > I have to edit a whole pile of files and do the same thing to them
 > all, I always fire up Jove on all of them and define a keyboard macro
 > just as you described.
 > 
 > It's a huge feature.
 > 
 > JP

But I think Emacs _is_ better for query-replace across a series of buffers --
I use tags-query-replace.  Unfortunately, this feature doesn't work so well
on Windows where a etags program doesn't seem to be supplied...