Epic: Search v2 #3920
Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
[Original Issue: #605] [Original Spec: #3299] [Initial PR: #3590]
Terminal text search has already realizes single tab case sensitive/insensitive forward/backward search. In phase 2, we are considering these new features:
- Add "Find" button in dropdown menu to trigger search. Now the search dialog is launched by key bindings, we may need to consider binding the dialog to a button in dropdown menu for mouse only operations.
- sorta in Add find item to tab menu #13055. Close enough.
- High-light while you type. Emphasizing all the matches in the buffer with an outline or selection with another color. This provides a clearer view of the searched text.
- Feature Request: Highlight all finding #7561 Feature Request: Highlight all finding
- Search should display the number of results it finds #6319 No results notification (or reveal number of results)
- Please add "next search match" and "prev search match" bind-able key for find operations #7695 next/previous search key bindings
- Selected text should populate search box #8307 Selected text should populate search box
- Search behavior in Terminal -- add capability to insert the matched hit #8274 Add capability to insert matched hit
- FR: IDE-style marks on scrollbar #1527 Display "find" matches in the scrollbar, Display "find" matches in the scrollbar #8631
- Pressing next/previous match keybindings should move to the next needle, even if the dialog is closed. (Maybe it should auto display the dialog)
- It'd be cool if there was a shadow underneath the search dialog, like there is for the command palette.
- Mentioned in Search box visual tweaks #11105 (comment)
- Fixed in Command palette and search box visual tweaks #12913
- Regular expression (regex) match. This is a useful search pattern and is implemented in some editors.
- first proto in Allow regex search #9228
- Will be effortless after Use ICU for text search #15858 merges
- merged in Add support for regex search to conhost and Terminal #17316, in 1.22
- Add size handle. Some text editors let the user resize the search box, and there is a size handle on the left side of the search box. This helps user when they search for long text.
- Feature Request: Fuzzy Search #5314 Fuzzy Search
- Go look at Fuzzy Search #16586
- Don't let results hide under search box #4407
- Search from all tabs. In phase one search are limited within one Terminal window. However, the community also requests search from all tabs. This may require a big change to the search algorithm.
- Depends on A pane doesn't necessarily need to host a terminal. #997 by all accounts
- Search history. Sometimes users would do the same search for several times, thus, storing the search history is useful.
Also related, from #5001:
- Add a setting to configure the regex used to detect patterns
- Allow "hyperlink" matching for arbitrary patterns and adding custom handlers Allow "hyperlink" matching for arbitrary patterns and adding custom handlers #8849
- Theoretically, this could supersede [DISCUSSION] Allow more URI schemes #7562
- Should be self-consistent with Add a setting to configure display of auto detected links, normally and on hover #8294
- Control the styling of hyperlinks - attributes used for autodetected hyperlinks, and then different attributes for hovered ones Add a setting to configure display of auto detected links, normally and on hover #8294