You might have noticed that prior to Build 445, Understand 2.0 didn’t have Find and Replace functionality. This was one of the reasons we have left it in beta status.
In this week’s Build 445 we released find/replace into a shipping build. So I thought it appropriate to blog about how it works.
You will find it under Search->Replace in Files
The “find” part of “find and replace” works exactly like “Find in Files”.
Like any useful find/replace you can preview the changes. We decided to do this in context of a diff.
You can accept/reject entire files, single replaces, so forth.
Note that in the middle of the diffs there are “?” marks indicating the status of that replace is not set yet:
Click on the question mark to toggle it to approve. You can also do this by clicking on 
in the menu at the bottom. Once accepted it turns green:
To unaccept it, click on it again:
And so on. Once you are comfortable with the replacements you are seeing you can accept entire files, or all of them.
And then perform the replace on all accepted changes. After confirmation it does the replace.
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