Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal

Since we're all giving replacements to this, nobody's mentioned my preferred one, so: use git add's patch mode. On a clean worktree, do the search/replace in bulk. Then use `git add --patch` to selectively add the good replacements and skip the bad ones. Finally, `git checkout -- .` to throw away all the bad ones. The nice part about this is that it's not much to remember. If you can make a global search and replace, and you can use `git add --patch` (which is useful loads of times), you can do a selective search and replace by combining them.

As far as this actual tool: the demo GIF is way too fast-paced to show what's going on. A better demo would maybe search "ring", have 10 or so results instead of pages and pages, and show how you can unselect "spring" matches which were unintentionally caught.

be very careful with

    git checkout .

it will eat your changes changes if you yolo it.

Pretty neat trick, I will definitely use it in the future

But it only works in git repositories. Sometimes you need to search and replace on non-git repositories, for those cases Scooter might be the answer

The `git gui` command is a nice-ish graphical alternative to `git add -p` and `git checkout` btw. You can even stage and discard individual lines. There are of course lots of other ones, but the TCL/Tk one is quite featureful.