I don't understand what makes this a "code" search and replace tool as opposed to a general text search and replace tool (a la the many many existing options for such). I was kind of expecting some kind of AST structure or grammar spec or at least a quick tokenizer to be able to handle situations like "don't replace this text if it appears in a string constant", but it doesn't mention anything like that.

Reminded me of https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep and I wonder how it compares in performance and functionality.

At this rate of naming projects after the same valuable stones, we are going to need namespacing for the CLI tools.

I used to use https://comby.dev/ which is amazing when it works but I kept having issues where it wouldn't accept my input or it'd error during processing. It was very flaky. So I've resorted to using https://github.com/piranha/goreplace as backup which is much simpler but reliable.

I'll check this one out...

Feels similar to `sd` (https://github.com/chmln/sd)

which in my mind was the first “replace” version of ripgrep

grep -> ripgrep

sed -> sd

Most of the time if I'm doing this, it's in a git repo and I only want to affect the checked-in files so that I can easily diff my changes. So I use a combination of `git grep`, `xargs`, and `perl` via a script I named `git-gsr`:

https://gist.github.com/jaysoffian/0eda35a6a41f500ba5c458f02...

Put it in `PATH` and then: `git gsr <old> <new>`

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40431835

EDIT: Opps same name different project.

I'm glad that people make tools like this, but this is a task that I need to do so rarely that I'm likely to forget it exists, which means that I'll likely roll my own (inferior!) version as a one-time thing.

    find . [ ... find args ] | sed -e 's/nee\(dl[aeiou]\)/stack\1/g'

this is cool! i do the same thing[1], wanted ag/rg to be able to search and replace.

1. https://github.com/nathants/agr

Can it do multiline search and replace?

Is it possible to store my config files under ~.config/amber/ on MacOS?

Not to be confused with this Amber

https://amber-lang.com/

not to be confused with Amber, the crystal lang web framework

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep ???