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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 <space> + /. This could be acc...
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 <space> + /. This could be acc...
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I am a heavy user off substitutions in vim, helix does not substitutions built in, rather it leans on multicursor support.

to replace every instance of hello with world in vim

:%s/hello/world/g<CR>

and in helix you would

%shello<CR>cworld<ESC>,

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