Hi, in vi the incremental search is regex aware by default (unless we use the nomagic option), while in emacs we can do C-r for non-regex and C-Meta-r for regex incremental search. The latter is actually quite useful, and I wonder if we can add this mode to tmux as well. Apart from a slight refactoring it should not be too much additional trouble to implement.
Best, Anindya On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 7:44 AM Anindya Mukherjee <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah great, sorry I misunderstood. That makes sense, thanks! > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:09 AM Nicholas Marriott < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> No that is not incremental search, that is search-again, it should use >> regexps. Incremental search is search-forward-incremental where it updates >> the search every time you change the search term not only when you press >> Enter. Try C-r with mode-keys set to Emacs. >> >> >> On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, 07:07 Anindya Mukherjee, <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Thanks! So say I start a / or Ctrl-S search with the regular expression >>> "a..d", to pick a concrete example. If the text has multiple matches such >>> as "axxd", "ayzd", they will all be highlighted. Then if the user presses >>> n, incremental search runs with the first exact match, in this case "axxd". >>> So in this case all "axxd" will be highlighted and "ayzd" will not. >>> Basically incremental will run with the first match encountered using that >>> as the search string (not regexp). Does that make sense? >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 1:01 PM Nicholas Marriott < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I think search-forward/backward should change to use regexps but >>>> incremental should not. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, 20 Nov 2019, 20:59 Anindya Mukherjee, <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Following up, is it desirable to add a new command to do regexp search >>>>> and leave the old commands as they are? This would mean >>>>> window_copy_regexp_search_... variants of some of the existing functions >>>>> and associated UI hookup. >>>>> >>>>> I was able to fix the line wrapped search issue mentioned above, still >>>>> doing character wise comparison, of course. Wondering if it deserves a >>>>> separate commit to the existing search infrastructure? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:29 AM Anindya Mukherjee <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Yes my thoughts exactly :D >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 8:50 AM Nicholas Marriott < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> If you are adding regex search it would be a perfect opportunity to >>>>>>> fix that also :-). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 at 16:27, Anindya Mukherjee <[email protected]> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > Thanks for clarifying! >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tmux-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/CAN%2Bi5iMGiwOSZVtj8g8gpjVJwyJoKyZQ6yizNosiHMsSQ%2Bgomw%40mail.gmail.com.
