Global search and replace

When you would want it

Renaming something, or finding every place a mistake was copied to.

Where to find it

• All Features → Global search and replace
• Search the project
• Turn on or off
• Settings
• Keyboard → Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+F

What you get out of it

• You see every hit before anything changes - no surprise diffs.
• Pattern search catches variants a plain find misses.
• Results stay live as you edit, so renames across many files stay trackable.
• Results come from your code, not from build output or an agent's second copy of the project - and a replace never rewrites those copies behind your back.

How to use it, step by step

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+F.
2. Type the text, or a regular expression pattern if you need one.
3. Narrow the scope with include/exclude patterns - say, only *.tsx files.
4. Review the matched lines grouped per file before touching anything.
5. Type the replacement and press Replace All, or replace just the matches you approve one file at a time.
6. For a file in a folder your .gitignore leaves out, open it from the file tree instead - search skips those folders, along with node_modules, build output, and the .claude/worktrees copies coding agents make.

Why this beats the usual way

Where many editors push you to an extension for project-wide replace with review, Agentfly treats preview-before-change as the default path. Combined with gutter diffs and git, every mass edit stays visible and reversible.

Shortcut

Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+F

Find it in Universal Search

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