Classic #Emacs tip: if you use query-replace 'foo' with 'bar', Emacs will replace 'Foo' with 'Bar' and 'FOO' with 'BAR'. Ingenious.
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I'm pretty impressed with Cursor: I've successfully asked it to perform codebase transforms in English, and it's worked!
E.g. "Replace all calls foo(..., true) with foo_immediate(...) define a foo_immediate function".
I'm still reading the diff and checking tests -- it's still AI after all.
It's odd how lazy evaluation is generally seen as a niche design choice, yet the vast majority of languages treat `foo() || bar()` as short-circuiting.
When a tool supports both regular expressions and literal strings, which should be the default?
If you default to regex, users can match more strings than they realise (e.g. `foo.txt`) or less (e.g. `foo(bar)`).
I typically see regex as the default, but I prefer the opposite.