Enhance the search options

Prabhu P

If I search for a string in a file and if that string occurs twice in a line, then in the search result pane, it will show two lines with that occurrence of the string highlighted. Requesting an option in search window to unify highlighting in same line rather than highlighting in duplicated lines.

Claudia Frank

This feature request has been already adressed here

Cheers
Claudia

Scott Sumner

Here’s a semi-workaround:

If you want to do a Find All on the string “abc”, do a regular expression search for ^.*?\Kabc

Although this won’t highlight all of the matches, it only puts a line with MULTIPLE occurrences of “abc” in the search results pane ONCE. It will highlight only the first match on the line.

guy038

Hello Prabhu and Scott,

Scott, nice work-around, indeed ! I upvoted for it.

Prabhu, there is, also, an other possibility :

Select the Search - Mark… menu option
Type abc, in the Find what : zone
Check the Bookmark line and the Purge for each search options
If necessary, check the Match case and Wrap around options
Select the appropriate search mode
Click on the Mark All button
Then, select the Search - Bookmark - Copy Bookmarked Lines menu option
Open a new tab ( CTRL + N )
Finally, paste the bookmarked lines ( CTRL + V )

However, my method has a disadvantage : it does NOT copy the line numbers, of the matched lines :-((

So, finally, we’re all agree that an option to get ONLY ONE line, with the multiple matched strings highlighted, would be welcome !!

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

I’ve just thought about an other way to get the line numbers, but not the highlighting, unfortunately :

Look for any occurrence of abc and send the results to the Find result pane, clicking, as usual, on the Find All in Current Document button
Select all the lines found, in the Find result pane, with the mouse
Copy these lines with a CTRL + C action
Open a new tab ( CTRL + N )
Paste these lines with a CTRL + V action
Finally, perform the S/R, below, with the Regular expression search mode checked

SEARCH (?-s)(^\h*(Line \d+:).*\R)(?:^\h*\2.*\R?)+

REPLACE \1

Et voilà ! You get each line, of the list, only once :-)