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Text Search

This is one of the most useful selection modes.

Actions​

1. Open search prompt​

Keybindings:

  • /: Search forward if no match under cursor
  • ?: Search backward if no match under cursor

2. Search current selection​

Keybinding: *

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3. Search using previous search term​

Keybinding: p

Keybinding: '

By default, search uses Literal mode.

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

Configuration​

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.

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2. Regex​

Keybinding: x

This is powered by the Fancy Regex engine, where features such as look-around and backtracking are supported.

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3. AST-Grep​

Keybinding: a

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

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4. Naming Convention Agnostic​

Keybinding: n

Naming convention 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.

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Options​

Alongside modes, there are multiple options (not mutually exclusive) that can be turned on or off. These options are only applicable in Literal or Regex mode.

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.

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2. Case-sensitive​

Keybinding: c

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

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3. Strict​

Keybinding: s

This is a shortcut for enabling both Case-sensitive and Match Whole Word.

4. Flexible​

Keybinding: f

This is a shortcut for disabling both Case-sensitive and Match Whole Word.

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:

KeybindingAction
ISet include glob
ESet exclude glob

Replace All​

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

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Footnotes​

  1. See more at Replace with Pattern ↩