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How can I selectively replace text across multiple files?
I want to either jump from occurance to occurance and decide for each if I want to replace or not or even have all occurances as a list with checkboxes and select which one to replace or not.
I'm using Windows 8.1 and don't mind weather I can achieve this with built-in functionality, scripts or a third-party tool.
Notepad++ (6.5.1), VS Code (1.3.1), Atom (1.8.0) and Sublime Text (3114) seem to only support selectively replacing across the current file or replacing all occurances at once across multiple files while UltraEdit (23.20.0.34) seems to only offer deciding file-wise (asking with alerts file by file).
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– DavidPostill – 2016-07-29T14:47:31.7402So if I wrote "how can I" instead of "What IDEs, ... support" it wouldn't be? It's about a feature not about choosing a product. There are lots of (other) questions about how to replace text in a certain manner around here. – sqln00b – 2016-07-29T14:55:08.823
TextCrawler also gives a list with checkboxes but AFAIK only lets you choose file wise – sqln00b – 2016-07-30T11:02:29.667
Other tools that do NOT support that are 4dot's Multiple Search and Replace and codeplex hosted Find And Replace. This article gives a list of 25 text replacement tools. Maybe some do support this functionality
– sqln00b – 2016-07-30T11:12:10.643