sad.nvim

Space Age seD in neovim. A project wide find and replace plugin with sad & fzf

This plug is a wrapper for sad by ms-jqd

You need

• install sad
• fzf so you can confirm/select the matches to apply your changes
• by default the plugin using fd to list all files in the current folder, you can use git ls_file
• a pager tool, e.g. delta

install

Plug 'ray-x/guihua.lua'  "lua GUI lib
Plug 'ray-x/sad.nvim'

Configure

require'sad'.setup({
  diff = 'delta', -- you can use `diff`, `diff-so-fancy`
  ls_file = 'fd', -- also git ls_file
  exact = false, -- exact match
  vsplit = true, -- split sad window the screen vertically, when set to number
  -- it is a threadhold when window is larger than the threshold sad will split vertically,
  height_ratio = 0.6, -- height ratio of sad window when split horizontally
  width_ratio = 0.6, -- height ratio of sad window when split vertically

})

usage

• If you put your cursor on the word want to replace or visual select the word you want to replace, simply run

:Sad

You will be prompt to input new word to be replace

• replace all oldtext to newtext for all project files

:Sad oldtext newtext

• add file filter, e.g lua files

:Sad oldtext newtext lua

• The lua way, you can add key map

-- replace old with new
lua require'sad'.replace('old', 'new')

-- or replace old with input for 'md' files
lua require'sad'.replace('old', nil, 'md')

-- or replace expand('<word>') or visual select with 'new' for md files
lua require'sad'.replace(nil, 'new', 'md')

-- or replace expand('<word>') or visual select with your input for md files
lua require'sad'.replace(nil, nil, 'md')

confirm or cancel

• <Tab> To toggle the individual item in the replacement list
• <CR> to confirm and apply all the replacement
• <Esc> to cancel all changes
• <Ctrl-a> toggle select all

Alternatives

• vim&neovim: far.vim a vim plugin with python & vimscript

• neovim: nvim-spectre Lua plugin, find with rg and replace with sed

  and most importantly, with realtime preview