counsel-edit-mode.el

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Features

• Edit search results from multiple files at once.
• Expand the search result context so that all matching delimiters are matched. This allows for structural editing on search output.
• Ediff support for viewing changes made in the counsel-edit-mode bufffer.

Screenshot

Overview

This provides an action that allows editing files in place for use with counsel-ag, counsel-rg, counsel-git-grep, counsel-ack, and counsel-grep.

It can be installed with:

(counsel-edit-mode-setup-ivy)

Installation

Counsel-edit-mode is available on MELPA

M-x package-install [RET] counsel-edit-mode [RET]

Usage

Once installed, run any of the counsel search commands. Once they start returning results, type M-o e to open up the counsel-edit-mode buffer to edit the results.

Keymap

counsel-edit-mode

Key	Action
C-c C-c	Commit Changes
C-c C-k	Discard Changes
C-c C-l	Goto buffer referenced at line
C-c C-u	Undo modifications to current line
C-c C-e	Expand current section for missing delimiters
C-u C-c C-e	Expand all files in buffer for missing delimiters
C-c C-m	Change major mode for current buffer
C-c C-d	Mark line for deletion
C-c C-p	Expand file at point's context up one line
C-c C-n	Expand file at point's context down one line
C-c C-r	Revert buffer with disk contents

counsel-edit-ediff-mode

Key	Action
C-c C-c	Commit Changes

Customization

• counsel-edit-mode-major-mode The default major-mode used by the counsel-edit-mode buffer. This can be changed per counsel-edit-mode buffer by calling counsel-edit-mode-change-major-mode in that buffer.

• counsel-edit-mode-expand-braces-by-default The default major-mode used by the When this is set non-nil, counsel-edit-mode will expand the context of each file until all matching delimeters are closed. This can be done manually per section by calling counsel-edit-mode-expand-section. If counsel-edit-mode-expand-section is called with a prefix arg, it will expand every section in the buffer.

• counsel-edit-mode-confirm-commits The default major-mode used by the When this is set non-nil, counsel-edit-mode will confirm commits with showing the changes in ediff. C-c C-c confirms the changes in ediff whereas q will close the ediff session.

Contributing

Contributions welcome, but forking preferred. I plan to actively maintain this, but I will be prioritizing features that impact me first.

I'll look at most pull requests eventually, but there is no SLA on those being accepted.

Also, I will only respond to pull requests on a case by case basis. I have no obligation to comment on, justify not accepting, or accept any given pull request. Feel free to start a fork that has more support in that area.

If there's a great pull request that I'm slow on accepting, feel free to fork and rename the project.