More than often I find that I need some custom regex for me in visual studio code.
Every time I use stackoverflow search to find the same regex rather than trying to rewrite it again and again. Now I am having a separate text note only for that purpose which contains my find/replace regex values. e.g.remove duplicates
Is there a custom smart plugin or option which allows me to add find / replace and give them names and save them (similar to ultra edit) directly in Visual Studio Code?
If there is a way to do the same in Visual Studio instead of code I am fine with it as well - I just need to be able to do find replaces quickly.
There are at least three extensions that can help you:
Find and Transform - which I wrote
They allow you to store and run (either singly or all on save) a list of regexp's find and replaces.
An example setting (in settings.json
) from Find and Replace:
"findInCurrentFile": {
"addClassToElement": {
"title": "Add Class to Html Element", // will appear in the Command Palette
"find": ">",
"replace": " class=\"@\">",
"restrictFind": "selections",
"cursorMoveSelect": "@" // after the replacement, move to and select this text
}
}
An example keybinding(in keybindings.json
) from Find and Replace:
{
"key": "alt+y",
"command": "findInCurrentFile", // note no setting command here
"args": {
"find": "^([ \\t]*const\\s*)(\\w*)", // note the double escaping
"replace": "$1\\U$2", // capitalize the word following "const"
"isRegex": true,
"restrictFind": "selections" // find only in selections
}
}
So you can save a find/replace or a search across files as a named setting or a keybinding.