in reply to Re: multi-file search-and-replace
in thread multi-file search-and-replace

Although this is a cool hacker solution (and I have used similar) it is a good way to bite yourself - done that too ;-). You need /g BTW to cover duplicates on the same line which are very probable

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cheers

tachyon