[Feature request] Highlight replacements in dry-run mode.

ismaelgv / rnr

A command-line tool to batch rename files and directories

MIT License

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Closed murlakatamenka closed 4 years ago

murlakatamenka commented 4 years ago

Hi, thanks for rnr!

It would be nice to highlight in color what is replaced with what in a dry-run mode.

Useful cases:

files / directories with long names (surely human brain parses colors way faster than long symbol sequences, and then you also need to diff both paths!)
replacement occurs multiple times

That's how ripgrep highlights found matches by default, for instance (rg fn):

Or another toy example (echo barfoobar | rg bar --replace baz):

What do you think?

ismaelgv commented 4 years ago

Yes, this would be a nice addition to rnr. I will take a look at this feature to include it in the next release. Thanks for the feedback!

ismaelgv commented 4 years ago

I added the diff feature in the colored version of the output. It is currently in master but I will include it in the next release.

murlakatamenka commented 4 years ago

Awesome, thanks!