Provides a dialog to find and replace text in the currently opened note. In addition to Obsidians on-board find/repace function, this plugin provides options to

• use regular expressions or just plain text
• replace found occurances in the currently slected text or in the whole document

Desktop as well as mobile versions of Obsidian are supported.

• Run Regex Find/Replace: Find and Replace using regular expressions from the command palette or
• Assign a shortcut key to this command and use it to open the dialog
• The plugin will remember the last recent search/replace terms as well as the settings

This plugin can be installed via the Community Plugins tab in the Obsidian Settings dialog:

• Disable Safe Mode (to enable community plugins to be installed)
• Browse the community plugins searching for "regex find/replace"
• Install the Plugin
• Enable the plugin after installation

The plugin can also be installed manually from the repository:

• Create a new directory in your vaults plugins directory, e.g.
  .obsidian/plugins/obsidian-regex-replace

• Head over to https://github.com/Gru80/obsidian-regex-replace/releases

• From the latest release, download the files

  • main.js
  • manifest.json
  • styles.css

  to your newly created plugin directory

• Launch Obsidian and open the Settings dialog

• Disable Safe Mode in the Community Plugins tab (this enables community plugins to be enabled)

• Enable the new plugin

Initial release

• Case insensitive search can now be enabled in the settings panel of the plugin (regex flag /i)
• Find-in-selection toggle switch is disabled if no text is selected in the note
• Performance improvements and bug-fixes

• Option to interpret \n in repleace field to insert line-break accordingly
• Option to pre-fill the find-field with the selected word or phrase
• Used regex-modifier flags are shown in the dialog