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Universal Search-and-Replace

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Equal Pigeon

A search-and-REPLACE option in Codex so we can change the names of characters / objects / locations universally across multiple entries with one click. It would save a lot of time instead of manually updating each separate Codex entry.

November 17, 2023

Lagoon Bee

Desperately need this. Things change often particularly during revision. It's a huge time waster to hunt for words that must be changed. UPVOTE

Actual Marmot

Find - Replace is cruicial - UPVOTE

Technical Salmon

search and replace is an absolutely necessary tool when doing revisions. UPVOTE

spaceemotion

Merged in a post:

Search and replace upvote!

Raspberry Caribou

Search and replace upvote!!!

A week ago

Soft Piranha

We definitely need this one. I change
names all the time. Especially when revising. Absolute must-have for
me.

Consistent Camel

I definitely think that there should be a search and replace, but I also really think that an advanced mode with REGEX would be really useful.

Revolutionary Swordtail

Plus one! What would also be cool would be a feature that could rename a Codex entry wherever it appeared (but I’d want find/replace as a separate function as well). That would let us change the name of a character easily, but also easily find every instance of “like a physical blow” and deal with them appropriately.

spaceemotion

Merged in a post:

GLOBAL WORD SWAP, per book.

Zephyr Caribou

Would be AWESOME and actually logical to have a full book word-replace. For instance, if the name of a character needs to be changed, having the ability to change that spelling of that word for the entire book. Word Swap. As we are developing worlds, sometimes we decide to change the name of items or characters. It's a massive time consuming task to go through a book to find all instances to be changed.

September 1, 2025

Blizzard blue Halibut

I would like the feature to be automatic. If you change the name of an Codex entry it would auto update all entries to match the change (also Aliases/nicknames). As an example I have 1,000 uses of the name of character and now I want to change the spelling. Simply changing it in the codex would change all entires of that name.

Jolly Otter

Up vote, have to change the name of the main character. Manually doing this will be annoying without this feature.

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