Reuben Thomas

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However, it does feel as though the solution to my problem would be of wide interest, and worth documenting in this package's documentation!

Thanks for the reply—it's a good point about expectation of "grep"; I think this would be possible to achieve by requiring a different executable name. `sed` is good in a...

Thanks for this, @gcflymoto. I also maintain the file renamer `mmv`, and I had wondered whether there could be a uniform approach to replacing text in files and renaming files....

My understanding of reading about `rep` and `ren` is that they *are* separate tools, which understand the *output* of `rg`, which sounds like exactly what you're after, @genivia-inc?

I don't see that the implementation language has anything to do with the idea of rep/ren. (FWIW, I find Rust a pain to write and don't use it, but I...

A comment from another angle: `rpl`, the file replacement tool I maintain, came to me written in Python. I recently found it had fairly fundamental performance problems which I was...

I doubt it will be possible to seamlessly upgrade, although I will do my best! More likely, I will continue to support Enchant 2 for some time, and Enchant's build...

> Great, thanks! Maybe if the APIs were mostly compatible and if I could detect the version with some ENCHANT_VERSION macro, I could support both versions 2 and 3 at...

> For my purpose it would be a little better if I had the ability to detect the version directly via a macro. Then I could use `#ifdefs` to handle...

> I plan to use a different approach. I will not request a version, I will take whatever I get (2 or 3) This is the bit I don't understand....