Obsidian Regex Search & Replace

This plugin enhances the default Obsidian document search & replace functionality to include basic Regex queries

Warning!

• This plugin is in an early testing phase. Please backup any documents before attempting to do a regex search & replace.

Features

• Regex functionality added to the default Obsidian search
• Regex also works with Search & Replace
• Capture groups are now supported for replacement
  • Use dollar sign references to refer to capture groups: $1 $2 etc
• Support for case-insensitive mode using /foo/i

Instructions

• If you want to search using RegEx, enter your search into the default search box and use the standard regex syntax: /[Ff]oo/

Not currently supported

• Advanced RegEx Mode modifiers
• Regex searching in preview mode
• Mobile usage

Manually installing the plugin

• Copy over main.js, styles.css, manifest.json to your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-regex-search-replace/.

Acknowledgment

• Big thanks to @pjeby for creating https://github.com/pjeby/monkey-around and helping write 80% of this code :)