How to do a project-wide find and replace in Spacemacs?

Question

I'm trying to do a project-wide find/replace in Spacemacs. I tried this:

1. SPC s a p
2. Type the text I want to replace.
3. C-c C-e

At this point Spacemacs tells me text is read-only. What am I missing to be able to preform the edit operation?

Shererd

Answer 1

Use SPC p R to use projectile-replace which runs interactive query-replace on all files in the project.

Illtimed

Thanks for this. It might be worth noting, that the interactive find/replace wont save the buffers. It looks like we can use SPC f S to use evil-write-all for saving all unsaved buffers. – Shererd

This really helped me :D sed wasn't enough. Thanks! – Curbstone

This was a life saver as I went to fix several imports across 70+ files lol. Thanks! – Mellow

SPC p % does the same thing but has regex functionality included – Mellow