Global (Mass / Vault-wise) search & replace

Oh, I see.

Now that you are at it, isn’t “Vault-wide” more English than “Vault-wise”?

How about chicken paprikash?

Didn’t get it :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Thanks to Obsidian folks for considering this feature request!

Just to add a use case: I have been linking to a note (that hasn’t yet been created) wiki-style from many other notes. I finally went to create the note today only to discover that since the name I’ve been using has a colon, I can’t make the note. Now I want to go back and replace all these links that link to a name with a colon, but there are several dozen. Find-replace would be perfect for this.

As a workaround, the in-page search-replace stays active when you switch between notes, so if you use it on one of the notes and then do a vault search for the rest of them, you can get thru them at nearly the same speed as a global replace that requires confirmation. Click search result, click Replace All, repeat. It’s not as fast as a global replace that doesn’t use confirmation, but useful to know.

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There’s a Global Search and Replace plugin now.

cc @CawlinTeffid

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Me too, VS Code global search is fire!

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There is no good way to do this. I am also using VS Code

Is this search & replace on vault feature on the roadmap?

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It’s not currently on the Roadmap. You can see that here:

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Well that’s too bad. Seems basic enough that it should be…

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This would make vaults more dynamic, and new workflows so much easier. +1

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+1 to this request. (In the meantime, I use Bbedit.)

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