How does one find and replace text in all open files with gedit?

Question

How does one find and replace text in all open files with gedit?

Answer 1

This is not possible with a stock gedit; there's an open ubuntu brainstorm idea for adding the ability. However, there are plugins that add it, such as advanced-find. If you install that, one of the sections on the "Advanced Find/Replace" dialog is "Scope"; choose "All Opened Documents":

Answer 2

Generally people who want to do this write an ed script and run it against all the files. E.g.:

*s/ThrityLimit/ThirtyLimit/
w
q

And then run it like this

find . -name '*.c' -exec "ed <edscript"

You can also use an ex script which allows you to use all the : commands from vi. It's the same binary as vi just called using the command ex to start without the gui.