Re:Fast
by Karrot_Kream on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @07:01PM
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I am familiar with grep-mode and have used that and macro recording for years. I've been using emacs for 20 years. grep-mode (these days I use rg) just brings up all the matches which lets me use a macro that I recorded. That's not the same as telling Claude Code to just make the change. Macros aren't table stakes but find-replace across projects is table stakes in pretty much any post-emacs/vim code editor (and both emacs and vimlikes obviously have plenty of support for this.)
https://youtu.be/f2mQXNnChwc?t=2135
https://youtu.be/zxS3zXwV0PU
And for Vim
https://youtu.be/wOdL2T4hANk
Standard search and replace in other tools pales in comparison.