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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/maintaining.texi | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 2 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi index 9a23f23e0ed..e508e87b8dc 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi @@ -2321,6 +2321,10 @@ Find all the references for the identifier at point. Interactively replace @var{regexp} with @var{replacement} in the names of all the identifiers shown in the @file{*xref*} buffer. +@item M-x xref-find-references-and-replace @key{RET} @var{from} @key{RET} @var{to} @key{RET} +Interactively rename all instances of the identifier @var{from} to the +new name @var{to}. + @item M-x tags-search @key{RET} @var{regexp} @key{RET} Search for @var{regexp} through the files in the selected tags table. @@ -2366,6 +2370,11 @@ files where these identifiers are referenced. This is useful when you rename your identifiers as part of refactoring. This command should be invoked in the @file{*xref*} buffer generated by @kbd{M-?}. +@findex xref-find-references-and-replace + @kbd{M-x xref-find-references-and-replace} works similarly to +@code{xref-query-replace-in-results}, but is more convenient when you +want to rename a single identifier specified by its name @var{from}. + @findex tags-search @kbd{M-x tags-search} reads a regexp using the minibuffer, then searches for matches in all the files in the selected tags table, one @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ It is bound to 'C-M-,' and jumps to the location where 'xref-go-back' called without prefix argument, to make the most common case faster: replacing entire matches. -*** New command 'xref-find-references-and-replace'. +*** New command 'xref-find-references-and-replace' to rename one identifier. ** File notifications |