Far.vim makes it easier to find and replace text through multiple files. It's inspired by fancy IDEs, like IntelliJ and Eclipse, that provide cozy tools for such tasks.

Plug 'brooth/far.vim'

:Far foo bar **/*.py
:Fardo

Find the text to replace.

Find only.

:Farr foo bar **/*.py

Interative Far. Shows searching modes in the status bar (regex, case sensitive, word boundary, replace). Modes can be toggled by the key mapping it prompted. Allows to enter {pattern}, {replace-with} and {file-mask} one after the other.

Interative F. The interaction is similar to Farr.

Runs the replacement task. The shortcut for it is s (substitute).

Undo the recurrent replacement. The shortcut for it is u (undo). It is available when set let g:far#enable_undo=1.

Change Far/F/Farr/Farf params.

:help far.vim

..and many more! Check out :help far.vim.

You can add he following settings to your vim configuration:

set lazyredraw            " improve scrolling performance when navigating through large results
set regexpengine=1        " use old regexp engine
set ignorecase smartcase  " ignore case only when the pattern contains no capital letters

" shortcut for far.vim find
nnoremap <silent> <Find-Shortcut>  :Farf<cr>
vnoremap <silent> <Find-Shortcut>  :Farf<cr>

" shortcut for far.vim replace
nnoremap <silent> <Replace-Shortcut>  :Farr<cr>
vnoremap <silent> <Replace-Shortcut>  :Farr<cr>

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