Readit Newstomschafer commented on Scooter - an interactive find-and-replace terminal UI app github.com/thomasschafer/... · Posted by u/tomschafer
I haven't been able to find a faster way to find and replace across a large repo, while respecting ignore files, than Scooter in `--no-tui` mode. If you know of a quicker way, let me know!
Am I the only one who thought this could alsop work lik "just" a find tool, only to discover it silently erased that word from all files in the directory without asking for confirmation?
This felt riskier than rm -rf.
This should only happen if you hit enter on the confirmation screen - was it not clear that this would happen? I'd rather not slow users down by making them confirm that they definitely want to perform the replacement, but I'm happy to hear about other ways to make it clear that a replacement is going to be performed
Cool.
I assumed it uses ripgrep (or the underlying walkdir) because that's the established high-performance tool for this. But apparently not.
It uses https://docs.rs/ignore/latest/ignore/ to walk dirs while respecting ignore files
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Not affiliated, I just built a little tool to make my life easier and thought I'd share
I use Helix, which doesn't have find and replace built in!