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Like global search and replace but don’t like surprises?

Check out serpl – a handy little command-line app that gives you a visual preview of the changes you are about to make. You can even go in and remove the replacements you don’t want from the source previews. The regex support appears to be basic, however (I couldn’t get a negative lookbehind to work).

github.com/yassinebridi/serpl#…

(Also, it appears they’re looking for maintainers. It’s written in Rust.)

#searchAndReplace #findAndReplace #CLI #app #serpl #dev

Screenshot of me serpl with Search, Replace, Result List and Preview panes in a command-line interface. Search has /setup and [Match Case] mode selected, Replace has /settings with [Simple] mode selected. The Results List shows about 20 items and the selected file is shown in the preview pane with three replacements in diff-style red/green highlighting on lines 27, 28, and 35.

GitHub - yassinebridi/serpl: A simple terminal UI for search and replace, ala VS Code.

A simple terminal UI for search and replace, ala VS Code. - yassinebridi/serpl
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ilmari
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ilmari
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it uses the rust regex crate, which does not support lookaround or backreferences, because they "are not known how to implement efficiently"

regex - Rust

This crate provides routines for searching strings for matches of a regular expression (aka “regex”). The regex syntax supported by this crate is similar to other regex engines, but it lacks several features that are not known how to implement effici…
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Aral Balkan
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@ilmari 🤷‍♂️

(One person’s inefficient is another’s good enough.) ;)

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