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    • asvcA
      asvc
      last edited by

      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++?

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      • Alan KilbornA
        Alan Kilborn @asvc
        last edited by

        @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.

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        • PeterJonesP
          PeterJones @Alan Kilborn
          last edited by

          @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)

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          • asvcA
            asvc
            last edited by

            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:
            search.png

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            • EkopalypseE
              Ekopalypse @asvc
              last edited by

              @asvc

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

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              • asvcA
                asvc @Ekopalypse
                last edited by

                @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?

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                • EkopalypseE
                  Ekopalypse @asvc
                  last edited by

                  @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.

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                  • asvcA
                    asvc
                    last edited by

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

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