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).
https://github.com/yassinebridi/serpl#readme
(Also, it appears they’re looking for maintainers. It’s written in Rust.)
Aral Balkan
ilmariregex crate, which does not support lookaround or backreferences, because they "are not known how to implement efficiently"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 efficiently. This includes, but is not limited to, look-around and backreferences. In exchange, all regex searches in this crate have worst case `O(m * n)` time complexity, where `m` is proportional to the size of the regex and `n` is proportional to the size of the string being searched.
@ilmari 🤷♂️
(One person’s inefficient is another’s good enough.) ;)