Thank you! Also, I noticed that if I have a line which wraps thereby
breaking up a string, then the search in copy mode does not find it, as a
result of the line by line approach to searching. When the pane or window
is resized to accommodate the string all on a single line, search finds and
highlights it. This is a bit counter intuitive; if this was vi or less with
a narrow display the string would still be found.

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 12:34 PM Nicholas Marriott <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Sure. I think you need to stringify each line and do the regex search, the
> difficulty will be to map the result back to the cells for highlighting,
> but you could do that just by repeating the stringify process until you
> meet the cell that matches the start point of the search.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, 20:16 Anindya Mukherjee, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I often find myself typing regular expressions in copy mode search
>> only to realise that they are not supported. Of course, one could just
>> rerun the command with grep or similar, i.e., there is often a workaround.
>> However, I wonder how desirable is it to have regexp support directly in
>> tmux. I for one would find it useful.
>>
>> I'd love to give it a try if no one is working on it! It seems the
>> current search is matching grid cell by cell, essentially char by char. So
>> it might not be trivial. I noticed it's a "medium" todo. Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks!
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