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setopt on Sept 3, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Greppability is an underrated code metric

I would actually love a regexp search-and-replace assisted by either TreeSitter or LSP.

Something that lets me say that I want to replace “Dog\(.*\)” with “Wolf\1”, but where each substitution is performed only within single “symbols” as identified by TS or LSP.

nickcox on Sept 3, 2024 [–]

ast-grep supports regex [1] or pattern based [2] matching and replacement.

[1] https://ast-grep.github.io/guide/rule-config/atomic-rule.htm... [2] https://ast-grep.github.io/guide/rule-config/atomic-rule.htm...

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