779218 - Kuma: Global find/replace feature

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 671762

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Wiki pages, defect)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

A global (that is, across all articles) find and replace feature would be extremely useful. This would be helpful for things like changing the name of an API, repairing common typos, etc.

It should be able to be restricted to specific locale(s).

Care needs to be taken to help avoid accidentally making a mess of lots of pages; we might want to consider making the user confirm for each article a diff of the page. It's still tedious but not as hard as going over the entire site hunting for all uses and fixing them by hand.

Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

It would be very useful. Especially on the HTML version and using regexp.

Even without the 'replace' part first...

Comment 2

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Marking this as a dupe of bug 671762 and linking to these comments from there.