Skip to content

incremental search with regexp? #2205

@damnskippy

Description

@damnskippy

(Compiled from latest sources, on Ubuntu 16)

Just a quick question: do the -incremental search commands using with command-prompt -i support regexp? It didn't work when I tried and just wanted to confirm if it's a user error on my part or if this is something not supported? Regex search works perfectly fine with normal search commands (search-forward & search-backward). Somehow assumed incremental would work since command-prompt -i executes the command as input changes per help doc. Fwiw, this is what I have for mapping to do incremental search:
bind-key -n C-s copy-mode -e \; send -X start-of-line \; command-prompt -i -p "search up:" "send -X search-backward-incremental \"%%%\""

Help text doesn't seem to explicitly call this out one way or the other:

The search commands come in several varieties: ‘search-forward’ and ‘search-backward’ search for a regular expression; the ‘-text’ variants search for a plain text string rather than a regular expression; -incremental’ perform an incremental search and expect to be used with the -i flag to the command-prompt command

Thank you.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions