Select and edit search results as text

[MartinMuzatko]

This is a sublime feature I am really missing.
For the sake of documenting projects easily, I loved to see that feature in Sublime Text.

What I want to do, is that I can e.g. use find-and-replace to find all files with repetive functions/classes/code and document the files somewhere else.

So, while in Sublime, you get an text-editable list of entries, you get an interactive UI with Atom find and replace. Which is okay - because there are no events bound to pieces of text/code (like there is with ST) for example expanding more code, jumping into the file, etc.

I'm not sure if this feature would be doable, but for me it is a very important feature.

[travco]

Related mechanically to #133

Currently search results are a buffer/UI, to make it user interactable it would indeed have to be something similar to the "text" (almost proto-HTML) outputted by sublime.

Good news, this will get fixed along with 133 if anyone ever takes it up.
Bad news, it's no small change - and 133 hasn't been touched since it was suggested in Feb, 2014.

I feel your pain Martin, it is my own. 😆