Builds on the find-in-files engine. A replace engine applies the
query's replacement to each matching file — literal or regex with
capture-group expansion ($1, $&, $$) — and reports per-file, per-line
before/after edits computed with the same logic the apply uses, so
preview and apply never disagree.
The search.replace command previews (no disk writes) or applies
(writing each changed file through the workspace path-safety guard).
The panel gains a Replace field: each match row previews its rewritten
line, and Replace all is gated on a clean git working tree (git is the
undo) plus a confirmation before it writes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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