I made those changes, but don't see any difference in the search.
Please check, thanks.

See 
https://github.com/jsoftware/qtide/commit/1ace6d8fea79f74ea73be4db8d992cbbca5efff9

builds at https://github.com/jsoftware/qtide/releases/tag/build

On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 6:24 PM Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It might be good enough to change Rxnna and Rxnnz at
> https://github.com/jsoftware/qtide/blob/master/lib/base/state.cpp#L189
> to
>
>   Rxnna = "\\b\\Q";
>   Rxnnz = "\\E\\b";
>
> There's an obscure edge case here, if someone tries searching for a
> "name" containing \E but that should never happen.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
>
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 8:44 PM chris burke <cbu...@jsoftware.com> wrote:
> >
> > The name only search is a regex of \b (word boundary) at start and end
> > of the string, see
> >
> > https://github.com/jsoftware/qtide/blob/master/lib/base/fiw.cpp line 363
> >
> > and
> >
> > https://github.com/jsoftware/qtide/blob/master/lib/base/state.cpp line 189.
> >
> > Perhaps a better regex could be taken from
> >
> > https://github.com/jsoftware/base9/blob/master/regex/regj.ijs
> >
> > and maybe this needs updating as well.
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 10:19 AM Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > An additional problem here is that a name only search for m. will
> > > treat the . as a wildcard character rather than matching specifically
> > > on the . character.
> > >
> > > This is probably due to the use of a regular expression in the
> > > implementation without the use of a regular expression quoting
> > > mechanism for the name part.
> > >
> > > In J, this quoting mechanism could look like
> > >
> > > alphanum=. '0123456789',(#~ tolower~:toupper)a.
> > > quotere=: {{1}.(#!.'\'~1 j. 1|.-.@e.&alphanum)'x',y}}
> > >
> > > (In other words: precede every non-alphanumeric character with a 
> > > backslash.)
> > >
> > > FYI,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Raul
> > >
> > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 12:51 PM Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > (I am not sure where I should leave these observations.)
> > > >
> > > > Today, I stumbled over a couple mis-features in the implementation of
> > > > the "name only" mechanism in j's qtide search mechanism.
> > > >
> > > > One issue is that a "name only" search for 'm' finds the 'm' in 'm.'
> > > > This makes searching for instances of 'm' which are not 'm.'
> > > > interesting, but arguably this is an acceptable compromise because J
> > > > merged 'm.' into 'm' some time ago.
> > > >
> > > > However, a "name only" search for 'm' does not find the 'm' in
> > > > 'var__m' (quotes are for emphasis here, and would not appear in the
> > > > text being searched), nor does a name only search for 'i' find the 'i'
> > > > in 'for_i.'.
> > > >
> > > > Anyways, at some point, I think we should do better here.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Raul
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