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Comment by kretaceous | Hacker News Reader

Okay wow. I didn't tools like this existed! There's been more than once where I've found myself in a situation like "find all code like this, change if this, delete if this". Regex can only get you so far.

Does someone know if this or something similar is available as a VSCode extension? It'd be fun to make one if not!

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Sourcegraph Community Manager here. You can use the Sourcegraph extension for VSCode [1] that would allow you to have the structural search powered by Comby (or literal or regular expression search) inside of VSCode.

You can't do batch changes[2] inside of VSCode yet, only via the Sourcegraph CLI[3]. We're working on expanding this.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sourcegr... [2] https://docs.sourcegraph.com/batch_changes/explanations/intr... [3] https://docs.sourcegraph.com/cli

Thanks for letting me know. I'll try it right away.

anything similar for vim?

We don't have an extension for Vim yet, but you can use Sourcegraph CLI[1] in your terminal. Feel free to file a feature request[2] though, which should help bump up the prioritization of a proper Vim extension.

[1] https://docs.sourcegraph.com/cli [2] https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/new?assign...

language-server methods like rename

Yes. I regularly use this feature sky-high I was looking for something more advanced as vanesa- spoke in the sibling comment.

- sky-high + but

Swiping fiasco. When do we get the edit comment feature in HN? :)

You should be able to edit comments within 2? hours of posting. Maybe this link works for you? https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=31417626

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