💭 Support regex substitution command · Issue #2232 · helix-edito...
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!https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2232

Date: October 8, 2024

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...
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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

``` text
:%s/hello/world/g
```

and in helix you would

``` text
%shellocworld,
```

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References:
[1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2232
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