Regex functionality in find and replace inside Obsidian. Right now it’s still possible by opening the note in another editor like sublime text. But it’ll be great to have it in Obsidian itself.

+1 for this feature. I have to supposedly move my vault into vs code to do find and replace on multiple files. I hope this get implemented inside obsidian soon.

I am having the same problem with pandoc. Is there any script that do that by any chance? it would be easy to place all the files in a folder and edit them in bulk using a loop

If the files are Word document, you can use this: Simple PowerShell (for now) script to convert Microsoft Word files into markdown with pandoc - #5 by mafsi If you are on Windows and use notepad++ 32bit there is a plugin called TextFX that can unwrap you text, but you have to manually process all t…

I’ll add my support for this, mostly due to the fact that mobile doesn’t support Vi mode and hence has no way to do this.

I’m starving without this feature, please, implement it! For now I have to open my notes in Sublime or VS Code, and I use regex search and replace every day, so this is not very convenient.

+1. It would make so many things easier! I use atom now, but would be great not having to mess with my vault files with another editor (even if I can).

I just released the first version of a plugin which adds this ability here: GitHub - nothingislost/obsidian-regex-search-replace: Plugin to enhance the functionality of Obsid It’s not in the plugin repository yet so it needs to be installed manually for now. If anyone wants to test it out and provi…

The latest release adds support for replacements using capture groups. [regex-replace-w-capture-groups]

Regex functionality for find and replace within obsidian

Plugins ideas (Archival in progress)

zanodor February 11, 2023, 6:35am 31