select 'ruplacement`by piping them though fzf or other selector

[sucrecacao]

Hi !
First, thank for this amazing tool ! I use it almost on a daily basis :)
Sometime ruplacer over-deliver replacement candidate, and I wold like to select only a subset of them.
Would it be possible to pipe the candidate into a selector like fzf to achieve this purpose ?

If not, could you give me some pointer on how to achieve it ?

[dmerejkowsky]

Not sure I understand what you want. fzf can only select one candidate from a list of lines, no?

Can you give me more details?

[sucrecacao]

No fzf can select multiple choices with the -m option.

The idea it to select a subset of the proposed patches. If you are a vim user, the idea is a bit like as using the c (confirm) option when doing a search an replace : s/old/new/c. But implemented differently ( with a selector like fzf )

Let's say I want to replace my old variable with new. But I also have word like behold oldish and Freeholder that also match the old regex. I dont want to bother finding a complex regex that will only match my old variable, I just want to select on the fly the right patches.

[sucrecacao]

Maybe an interesting feature that could solve this is the following two options:
--writes-patches-to-folder that put all the patches into a folder, one patch per file. The use would be
ruplacer old new . --writes-patches-to-folder /tmp/mypatches

Now it is possible manually ( or with a fzf script ) to remove the unwanted replacement in the /tmp/mypatches folder.

And then a second option --apply-from-folder that could be using instead of the regex for the --go option:
ruplacer --go --apply-from-foler /tmp/mypatches
Actually I don't think I would have to ruplacer for this part. It could be done simply with the patch command. So I guess only the first feature would be interesting heh

[dmerejkowsky]

You may want to try sad - it's a bit different from ruplacer, but you may prefer it