Not sure if this is rhetorical, but you can (1) use rg -l to open a bunch of files in vim (2) qq make change, select next pattern, esc. (3) qr 100@q :bufferdele

Not sure if this is rhetorical, but you can (1) use rg -l to open a bunch of files in vim (2) qq make change, select next pattern, esc. (3) qr 100@q :bufferdelete esc (4) 100@r If it’s a simple replace symbol, its easier to do it with rg -l and sed -i, of course.