If you have never used wgrep with rg.el to rename a function in several files, try it | that will blow your mind

• deadgrep

  11 699 4.4 Emacs Lisp

  fast, friendly searching with ripgrep and Emacs

Yes in this area (text search) there is many alternatives. Wilfred Hughes (author of deadgrep) has listed them in: https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep/blob/master/docs/ALTERNATIVES.md

• rg.el

  9 460 5.2 Emacs Lisp

  Emacs search tool based on ripgrep

In this post we see how to rename interactively a function that appears in several files using rg.el and wgrep!

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• Emacs-wgrep

  6 599 6.2 Emacs Lisp

  Writable grep buffer and apply the changes to files

In this post we see how to rename interactively a function that appears in several files using rg.el and wgrep!

• multiple-cursors.el

  18 2,220 4.4 Emacs Lisp

  Multiple cursors for emacs.

Then, in *rg* buffer, we transform org-link-expand-abbrev into org-link-RENAMED the way we prefer (we have all the Emacs power, some of us might use query-replace, other might use multiple-cursors.el, other iedit, etc.). And so *rg* buffer looks like this:

• iedit

  4 390 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  Modify multiple occurrences simultaneously

Then, in *rg* buffer, we transform org-link-expand-abbrev into org-link-RENAMED the way we prefer (we have all the Emacs power, some of us might use query-replace, other might use multiple-cursors.el, other iedit, etc.). And so *rg* buffer looks like this:

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