Find and replace only in open tabs

How to Find and replace only in open tabs?

[izuzak]

Not possible at the moment, I believe, but sounds like a neat idea for an enhancement.

@izuzak
thanks.

[brentonstrine]

This would be really helpful, and is a make-or-break feature for a serious code editor.

Sometimes you want to do a search/replace on a set of files that can't be identified only by directory or file extension. Right now my workaround is to move all the files I want to modify into a directory, then do the search/replace in that directory, then move them back to their original locations. Obviously this is not a good solution!

[slowpoison]

@izuzak any update on this? Does the API not allow this?

[vitorhsb]

This would be a great enhancement.
Sublime Text has built-in Open files search via '' and/or '' file/directory pattern.

[ercmcd]

Any information on what it would take to start working on this as an enhancement to the existing find feature?

[tati]

👍 this would be super helpful

[jamesalley]

Yes please. I'm missing this feature.

[skoshy]

Looks like this package for Atom incorporates Finding in Open Files, but it's tailored for TODO items. Maybe the code might be useful? https://github.com/mrodalgaard/atom-todo-show

[ocssor]

Any update on this? Would be extremely useful.

[hjess]

+1 (+1 +1 +1 ) This is one of my most-used features on Sublime, and most-missed in my switchover to Atom.

[brentonstrine]

@hjess this single feature (find&replace across multiple files--be it open tabs or whatnot) has been responsible for me switching from Atom to Sublime. I've been waiting since 2014 and haven't seen any action to prioritize this or even respond to comments asking for updates. Seems indicative of a larger problem with the software development if a hugely important feature that's regularly commented on gets completely ignored for years.

[winstliu]

@brentonstrine There have been no updates on this, so we haven't provided any.

In addition, "hugely important" is very subjective here - you may use it often, but I haven't ever had the need for this feature yet.

As always though, PRs are always welcome. Sorry I can't comment more on what's needed to implement this, but I don't have much experience with the find-and-replace code (@benogle might know more).