Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST

Re:Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST by hou32hou on Saturday March 07, 2026 @08:43AM (#47287580)

Sorry for derailing a bit, the search and replace using a query make sense for purly textual (non-syntactic) editing, but if you want to apply consistent syntactic modifications across multiple locations in the same file, you will need both multi-cursor and syntax node selection/navigation/modification.

It's hard to explain unless you actually try Ki, because it is a paradigm shift

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Re:Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST by worksonmine on Saturday March 07, 2026 @11:14AM (#47288907)

Or you could use grn for LSP rename[1] in Neovim and it will rename all references across the project. VSCode and other IDEs have a similar feature, but compared to multi-cursor that's cheating.

I'll give you that using the AST to select the references is an interesting addition to multi-cursor, but I still don't see how they would be useful compared to my current workflow.

[1]: https://neovim.io/doc/user/lsp/#vim.lsp.buf.rename()

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