In your plugin there is nothing stopping you from getting the buffer in one piece and implementing your own search on it, no need to annoy Scintilla. That is how Geany implements regex search using different engines from Scintillas.
On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 at 11:44, Austin Green via Devel <devel@lists.geany.org> wrote: > > The search feature is supplied by Scintilla. There is a facility for setting > a 'case-folder' (function or table) to handle case-insensitive searches, so > allowing a user-supplied custom case-folder might be the easiest way. Then it > could be handled in Geany via my plug-in. AFAIK there is no such option > currently in Geany or Scintilla, so I'll ask the Scintilla people if they > would consider adding it. > > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:47:38 +1000 > Lex Trotman via Devel <devel@lists.geany.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 at 16:23, Austin Green via Devel > > <devel@lists.geany.org> wrote: > > > > > > Yes, that works, but I was hoping for the lazy version, e.g. an option on > > > the search dialog. Guess I'll have to code it myself. > > > > Indeed, AFAIK the Unicode standard does not define any normative > > mechanism to do this, so you are inventing your own requirement, and > > therefore you have to code it yourself. > > > > For some simple cases like Latin 1, decomposition will separate the > > diacritical from the base character so you can compare bases but > > ignore combining characters, but as I said, thats a function _you_ > > want, not a normal defined one, so you will have to write it. > > > > Cheers > > Lex > > > > > Cheers, > > > Austin. > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:27:46 +1000 > > > Lex Trotman via Devel <devel@lists.geany.org> wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 at 12:57, Austin Green via Devel > > > > <devel@lists.geany.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Is there a way to get the Geany search to match letters with > > > > > diacriticals as though they were not? E.g. I want to be able to > > > > > search for 'cafe' and have it match 'café' as well. > > > > > > > > Possibly you could use a regex to match e or é ? > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Lex > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Devel mailing list -- devel@lists.geany.org > > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.geany.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Devel mailing list -- devel@lists.geany.org > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.geany.org > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Devel mailing list -- devel@lists.geany.org > > > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.geany.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list -- devel@lists.geany.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.geany.org > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list -- devel@lists.geany.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.geany.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list -- devel@lists.geany.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.geany.org
