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Comby is a tool for searching and changing code structure (comby.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by paequ2@lemmy.today to c/programming@programming.dev

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I just used this to update 600 lines, across 33 files! It worked great!

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[–] unexpectedprism@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago

I found ast-grep inconvenient to match several consecutive lines of python whereas comby handles this reasonably fine.

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