Merge [rewrite] into [url-rewriting] [closed]

Question

Merge rewrite into url-rewriting.

Currently, according to the tag wiki, rewrite is about URL rewriting, so they should be merged.

Maybe blacklist rewrite for ambiguity; otherwise synonymize.

Answer 1

Mostly rewrite is used for url-rewriting on Stackoverflow.

But there are many questions that have rewrite for file-rewriting. Rewrite means replacing subterms of a formula/code/string with other terms. So it would be create problem if we directly merge tags.

Some of questions are:

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11608787/zend-rewrite-base
2. Write in a file but delete on exit?
3. Rewriting into a file
4. Python. How to edit data in text database?
5. Rewrite a file that the program already used
6. suggestion required related to rewriting and string manipulation