Far – Sublime Inspired Find and Replace

40•weinzierl•3d ago

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cssinate•5h ago

README says `--tartget` - is that really the flag? Or is it supposed to say `target`?

_Henry_•4h ago

It's a typo. From the source code, it's spelled "target"

mattpavelle•5h ago

The FAQ doesn’t say so anyone know how this is better than [RPL](https://linux.die.net/man/1/rpl) (which I’ve used for years)?

mattbaker•4h ago

I’d never heard of this! What a great tool.

SoftTalker•1h ago

The original upon which this is based: http://www.laffeycomputer.com/rpl.html

abcd_f•4h ago

There is another Far, with a bit more history behind it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Manager

eddythompson80•3h ago

Man, I remember the first time I came across Far Manager. It was through ConEmu in 2010. I was pretty confused with Far tbh. Couldn’t really figure out who or why you would use it. Then I saw someone actually using it at work.

The Wiki doesn’t go much into the demographic for such file manager. It does say they predate GUI file managers, which is fair I guess, but I always thought you lived by cd/ls/find/cat/etc then. I still do for the most part.

abcd_f•2h ago

Far is a Norton Commander clone, and the NC was ubiquitous in pre-Windows era. It felt like it was on every single machine that ran DOS. Its dual-panel design is really quite ingenious as it speeds up the majority of routine file operations, especially when working with ad-hoc file sets. Just need to learn the keyboard shortcuts :)

ilyagr•50m ago

Far manager now exists on Linux and Mac: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l

I got it from nixpkgs, not sure if it's easy to install otherwise.

iwontberude•2h ago

I appreciate the willpower to not call this fart.

dima55•2h ago

Obvious question: how is this better than `perl -p -i -e s/Foo/Bar/g src/*/*.rs`?

pacifika•2h ago

Less slashes and parameters

nkrisc•2h ago

I can understand the example in the repo just from reading it. Without the context I would have had no idea what posted is search and replace. So it’s got that going for it.

SubiculumCode•2h ago

I appreciate the submission, but wish it had a lot more context given (e.g. in a blog post). For example, for someone who hasn't used find and replace in Sublime, how is it different than find and replace available in most text editors? How is this different than sed?

SoftTalker•1h ago

> How is this different than sed?

Less powerful but easier to use for simple cases?

llimllib•2h ago

I use fastmod[1] and enjoy it

[1]: https://github.com/facebookincubator/fastmod

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