Find and Replace across files

[akosyakov]

Are you planning to have search across files functionality similar to https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/codebasics#_search-across-files?

[blink1073]

Hi @akosyakov, #1074 is tracking search/replace within documents, but this issue can serve as a request for searching across files.

[fcollonval]

For reference, VS Code search is using ripgrep.

[aiqc]

I have about 15 documentation notebooks. Whenever I change my API, I have to edit each file. So this would be great for refactoring.

[meeseeksmachine]

This issue has been mentioned on Jupyter Community Forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-do-you-search-a-folder-for-all-instances-of-a-keyword/10610/2

[fcollonval]

For information, some work on that front have started in https://github.com/jupyterlab-contrib/search-replace.

[jasongrout]

This issue is on the 4.0 planning project. In the JupyterLab dev meeting this morning, we did not find anyone who was willing to do this by the end of the year to make the 4.0 release. If there is someone willing to work on this, please comment here (and please come to the JLab dev meeting and let us know). If no one has volunteered by next week (10 Nov), we'll take it off of the 4.0 planning project. If someone volunteers to do it by the end of the year, we can always put it back on the 4.0 roadmap.