Find & replace for all the links in my site

What editors can do this?

[Teshka]

Hi, I'm just a hobby webmaster and have always coded my pages by hand. Now, I want to move a geocites site that has grown quite large to its own domain. This means changing the links everywhere in the site. Can you tell me of a free or cheap editor that will do this for me? Thank you all.

[davidpbrown]

I use the Find and Replace on a program called HuTMiL for things like this. That function is essentially find and replace on multiple files, which may be all you need.

dpb

[brotherhood of LAN]

notetab also, you can download a free version if you search for notetab lite.

There's a sitewise search/replace function, should be just a case of replace $oldurl for $newurl, else you're using relative paths and shouldn't matter :-)

[NeedScripts]

Get the software called Code Switcher from filehouse.com it is really cool :)

NS

[Hagstrom]

There's a sitewise search/replace function

The "replace in file" tab is not available in the freeware version of NoteTab.

What I usually do is to open all the files simultaneously and then use NoteTab's "Replace text" function, then "Save All" and "Close All Documents".

[Imaster]

I use bkreplace. Nothing beats it.

[killroy]

I use Editpad Lite (sharewar/free, not sure).

First thing I do on a new install of windows is replace hte notepad.exe file with editpad.exe. That's how essential I find it.

Anyways, It can open any number of files simultaneously and do a global search and replace. So just drag all th efiels on it at once and do a search and replace across them.

I just turn a pre-made old html (font tags and all) into an almost compliant, SEOed, CSSed site, jsut with repeated S'n'Rs...

Most notable lack: No regexing... :(

SN

[bruhaha]

I use AceHTML from visicommedia.com for my main HTML coding. You can easily do a search & replace on all open files (which open in separate tabs), OR for all files of the sort you specify in a folder that is NOT open (and subfolders if you like). I believe it even allows some use of regular expressions (though I use other tools with more capabilities for that sort of thing).

There is a freeware version, which I believe includes this capability.

Note that even for those who like to code by hand (which I generally do), this sort of editor (not a WYSIWYG) provides a lot of little conveniences to speed up your work: syntax-coloring, drop-and-drag of links, auto-completion of tags, error checking, link checking, spell checking (that ignores tags) . . . . You don't need to use all features to benefit.

[sun818]

Another vote for BkReplace (now called ReplacEm).

[davemarks]

a program called .Edit from www.ashleybrown.co.uk is your best bet. you need only sign up to get your free reg code.

theres no mailing lists or anything to worry about - i know the guy... well kinda. i've used it for ages for this kinda thing and is my top editor for css ;)

[Teshka]

Thank you all for your suggestions. Gotta get busy this weekend ;)