eclipse-theia/theia

[search-in-workspace] Support regular expression substitution

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#6,420 opened on Oct 21, 2019

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Description

The search supports regexp but I cannot reference groups in the replace term. Example: search: padding([^ >]*) replace with: class="ion-padding$1"

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Research direction
Investigate how search in workspace currently handles regex and replace, then add support for capturing group references in the replace term.
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typescript
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