The interface doesn't show any replacement?

[Integralist]

Not sure if I'm not triggering things correctly, but when I type my replacement and then press Esc nothing happens.

Here is the configuration I'm using:

lua <<EOF
  require('spectre').setup({
    replace_engine={
      ['sed']={
          cmd = "gsed", -- I brew install gsed but I still have the macOS BSD system `sed` installed/exposed.
      },
    },
  })
EOF
nnoremap <leader>S <cmd>lua require('spectre').open()<CR>

The below screenshot demonstrates that the replacement isn't applied in the preview.

For example, I expected all instances of func Pr to be replaced with func Pxxxx.
So if we look at the first result func PrintDictionaryItem that should become func PxxxintDictionaryItem.

[windwp]

you can't use '\b' it is vim regex you can check by ':help \s'.
I say it on README the search function use rg regex but the highlight on UI use vim regex :(

[Integralist]

Eurgh. Apologies. I did see mention of it but I clearly misunderstood what was actually being explained.

So yeah switching away from using 'word boundary' \b allowed the replacement to work 👍🏻

[gaborvecsei]

Eurgh. Apologies. I did see mention of it but I clearly misunderstood what was actually being explained.

So yeah switching away from using 'word boundary' \b allowed the replacement to work 👍🏻

What was your solution to "switching away"?

[Integralist]

@gaborvecsei iirc I used \< and \> as that's the standard vim syntax for word boundaries.

[gaborvecsei]

@Integralist Yeah I tried it with the vim syntax, but then I got a regex parse error

[windwp]

hi on new version you can try to switch replace engine to oxi
it use a rust regex to highlight and replace.
just check readme and run file build.sh