VIM-like search

asvc

One feature I miss in Notepad++ is vim-like search where one can press / and type whatever they please, including a regexp expression.

In VIM world, that would be enabled by:

set hlsearch
set incsearch
set showmatch

Is there a something similar for Notepad++?

Alan Kilborn

@asvc

No, but I vaguely recall it being requested in the past.
And maybe there’s a plugin, but I don’t see it in Plugins Admin after a quick check.

PeterJones

@Alan-Kilborn said in VIM-like search:

@asvc

No, but I vaguely recall it being requested in the past.
And maybe there’s a plugin, but I don’t see it in Plugins Admin after a quick check.

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/37979 => discussion of AutoHotKey and/or PythonScript methods of getting vim-like command-mode

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/28550 => link to a “visimulator” plugin which proported to be 64bit-compatible (possibly derived from an even older 32-bit-only visimulator that was apparently lost to the ether)

asvc

Ok, let’s start with the less destructive approach…

@Alan-Kilborn , @PeterJones , do you remember if there was ever a proposal to “dock” the search window?

Or, maybe allow a smaller one, like in a modern web-browser:

Ekopalypse

@asvc

there is the incremental search feature (search->incremental search)
but it lacks of regex implementation. Maybe this works for you!?

asvc

@Ekopalypse said in VIM-like search:

@asvc

there is the incremental search feature (search->incremental search)
but it lacks of regex implementation. Maybe this works for you!?

That is good 75% of it! Thanks for the suggestion. I have checked GitHub issue tracker for “incremental search” and there seems to be no regexp requests.

Before I decrease SnR in already hot issue tracker, do you know if this was discussed anywhere before?

Ekopalypse

@asvc

do you know if this was discussed anywhere before?

here at the forum, yes, last time it was mentioned here and here.
On github, I don’t know.

asvc

@Ekopalypse, thanks. Let’s continue in the main topic ?