Posts tagged: refactoring

Support regex substitution command · Issue #2232 · helix-editor/helix Support regex substitution, comparable to vim :s or VSCode search & replace. I propose supporting regex replacements for selection s, files/, and the workspace scopes + /. This could be acc... GitHub · github.com [1] Here is a really good vim substitute with regex capture groups, saving this one for a rainy day. * Reading 1: This is a title to a link * Reading 2: This is another title :%s/\v(: )(.+)$/\1\[\2\]\( * Reading 1: [This is a title to a link]( * Reading 2: [This is another title]( Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2232#issuecomment-1228632218 [2]: /thoughts/

Support regex substitution command · Issue #2232 · helix-editor/helix Support regex substitution, comparable to vim :s or VSCode search & replace. I propose supporting regex replacements for selection s, files/, and the workspace scopes + /. This could be acc... GitHub · github.com [1] Interesting take on refactoring the whole codebase from your editor. In this thread the-mikedavis suggests multicursor as a replacement for substitute, and later in the thread takes the side that larger workspace wide edits are outside the scope of helix and he would reach for a refactoring tool like fastmod [2] to do the job. Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2232#issuecomment-1107644740 [2]: https://github.com/facebookincubator/fastmod?tab=readme-ov-file [3]: /thoughts/