Unable to show regular expression match

[abtxu]

I have modeled my command from this post:

Display file "content:" search results - like grep
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My search command:

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D:\HOME\org\notes\ ext:txt regex:content:"pandoc" addcolumn:regmatch1

While Everything correctly picked up the file containing the search word "pandoc", it will not be able to display search match.

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I am using Version 1.5.0.1396a (x64) on Windows 10. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[void]

Please use ( and ) to capture text:

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D:\HOME\org\notes\ ext:txt regex:content:(.*pandoc.*) addcolumn:regmatch1

The line containing pandoc is shown under the regmatch1 column.
The first ( ) group will capture the match into regmatch1.
The second ( ) group will capture the match into regmatch2.
and so on..



regmatch0 shows the whole match. (not the whole contents of the file, it will just be pandoc)
However, in this case, nothing is shown for Regular expression match 0 because of an optimization.
To use Regular expression match 0, prefix your regex search with nofastregex:

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D:\HOME\org\notes\ ext:txt nofastregex:regex:content:"pandoc" addcolumn:regmatch0

Please note, regmatch0 shows only the matched text.
In this case it will just be pandoc.

I will disable regex optimization when the Regular expression match 0 column is shown in the next alpha update.

[abtxu]

Hi Void,

It works! Thanks so much! I have made it into a customized search command which is very handy to use.

A quick follow up: how to show all the matches?

In a file with multiple matches, it seems that only the first one will show up on the regular expression match 1, and the rest will not be visible. Also, the matches in the preview are not highlighted.

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But I can see that in this post, the matches are highlighted:
viewtopic.php?t=11060

[void]

A quick follow up: how to show all the matches?

It's not really possible.

It can be done, but it's not really practical to type:

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D:\HOME\org\notes\ ext:txt <regex:content:(.*pandoc.*)[\S\s]*?(.*pandoc.*)[\S\s]*?(.*pandoc.*) | regex:content:(.*pandoc.*)[\S\s]*?(.*pandoc.*) | regex:content:(.*pandoc.*)> add-column:regmatches

But I can see that in this post, the matches are highlighted:

Everything doesn't highlight text in previews.
This is on my TODO list.
In this case the user has manually highlighted the text.