ah yes time to refactor. i could use this nice emacs grep tool to repla~
> i'm on windows where that doesn't work.
i could go fuck myself.

@icedquinn are there Emacs functions that really don't work on Windows?

@lmedinar there are some which call out to external tools to do their job and those will not work on windows (as windows does not have grep, ripgrep or ag.)
@lmedinar you can for example get one that uses ripgrep or silver searcher to scan a project folder for matches then pulls the context from those searches in to a buffer, and then run a command which changes this to a wgrep buffer, which allows you to refactor all of the match sites from a single screen and then write the changes back.

its called 'nuclear weapon editing' in search results and its amazing.
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@icedquinn damn, I need to try this. It is wonderful that I learn something about Emacs almost everyday, even after using it for a couple of years.

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