Writing Regex Replacer

Writing Regex Replacer

Replaces your text as you write, using configurable regexes.

An obvious use case for this is to expand for example a Jira issue into a link to that issue. The regex need to replace PROJ-123 with [PROJ-123](https://organisation.atlassian.net/browse/PROJ-123) is just:

• source: PROJ-\d+
• target: [$0](https://organisation.atlassian.net/browse/$0)

The actual matching and replacing is done using Javascripts replace method on your current line, but a few convenience features are added to make it easier to use.

• For each pattern (the set of source and target regex), there are two toggles, both of which have tooltips on them:
  1. Whether or not the match needs to have whitespace before it. In the Jira example above, this avoid matching ABCPROJ-123
  2. Whether or not to require a space after the regex before matching. In the Jira example above, this avoids matching and replacing PROJ-1 before you type the second two digits.
• Javascript replace apparently doesn't support $0 to reference the entire match directly, so the plugin automatically replaces $0 with what javascript does support, $&.

The plugin only replaces as you type, and only on the current line.