Grug Far

A very efficient search and replace tool using the external ripgrep command line tool.

Space s is the search and replace menu

g ? for help menu in the Grug-far buffer

Search and replace with Grug-Far

Space s s to search across the current workspace (project)

Enter a Search pattern, press Esc and all occurrences across the project are shown

Enter a Replace pattern, press Esc to see occurrences with their replacement

, r to replace all occurrences with the replace pattern

, j / k replace at current line & move to next / previous change

Search results in Quicklist

, q adds search results to quickfix list to edit occurrences with other Neovim tools

Search buffer

Enter patterns in the Search and Replace and the results are show in a diff below.

Tab and Shift Tab navigate between search buffer sections.

Usefull Ripgrep options for Grug-Far

• -i/--ignore-case: ignore case differences, e.g. rg -i fast matches fast, fASt, FAST, etc.
• -F/--fixed-strings: Disable regular expression matching and treat the pattern as a literal string.
• -w/--word-regexp: pattern matches are surrounded by word boundaries, e.g. pattern is \b(?:pattern)\b.
• -c/--count: a count of total matched lines.
• -a/--text: Search binary files as if they were plain text.
• -U/--multiline: Permit matches to span multiple lines.
• -z/--search-zip: Search compressed files (gzip, bzip2, lzma, xz, lz4, brotli, zstd). This is disabled by default.
• -C/--context: Show the lines surrounding a match.
• -L/--follow: Follow symbolic links while recursively searching.
• -M/--max-columns: Limit the length of lines printed by ripgrep.

All Ripgrep Options