Text Search

This is one of the most useful selection modes.

Keybindings:

Keybinding	Meaning
s	Open search prompt
c	Search using current selection
p	Search using previous search
'	Configure search

By default, the search prompt searches using Literal mode.

Other modes can be toggled/chosen by opening the search configurator.

Configurator

The following modes/options are configurable in the configurator.

Modes

There are 4 search modes, and only one of them can be chosen at any time.

1. Literal

Keybinding: l

The default and the most commonly used search mode. In this mode, every characters are treated verbatim, a ( means a (, it does not mean the start of a capture group.

2. Regex

Keybinding: x

This is based on Rust-flavored regex.

3. AST-Grep

Keybinding: a

This is based on AST Grep, useful for structural search and replacement.

4. Case Agnostic

Keybinding: c

Case as in camelCase or snake_case, not upper-case or lower-case.

This is one of my favorite search modes, especially when dealing with business code.

In this mode, the search will be expanded to all different cases such as (non-exhaustive):

1. kebab-case
2. UPPER-KEBAB
3. MACRO_CASE
4. snake_case
5. Title Case
6. lower case
7. UPPER CASE
8. camelCase
9. PascalCase

For example, searching hello world in this mode matches (non-exhaustive):

1. helloWorld
2. HELLO_WORLD
3. HelloWorld

etc.

This is most powerful when used with Replace with Pattern.

Options

Alongside modes, there are multiple options (not mutually exclusive) that can be turned on or off.

1. Match whole word

Keybinding: w

When turned on, the search will be restricted to match word boundary (\b). For example, hello will not match itself in helloWorld, it will only match standalone hellos.

2. Case-sensitive

Keybinding: i

When turned on, the uppercase or lowercase of each alphabet of the search becomes important. For example, hello will not match Hello.

Globbing

This only works in Global text search.
This is useful when you want to include/exclude certain files/directories during global search/replace.

This feature is powered by the globset library, which supports alternation such as:

• *.{js,jsx}

Keybindings:

Keybinding	Action
I	Set include glob
E	Set exclude glob

Replace All

This is a global action that replaces all matches with the replacement pattern¹.

Footnotes

1. See more at Replace with Pattern ↩