[QScintilla] Search Whole Word matches Only on regular expression symbol

[Han Lun Tan]

Thanks for response :)
I will mark this down as one of our limitation for find feature :)

Thanks.


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From: qscintilla-bounces at riverbankcomputing.com [mailto:qscintilla-bounces at riverbankcomputing.com] On Behalf Of Baz Walter
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 1:07 AM
To: qscintilla at riverbankcomputing.com
Subject: Re: [QScintilla] Search Whole Word matches Only on regular expression symbol

On 10/10/13 01:29, Han Lun Tan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I using FindFirst to do search, turn on wo = true to search for whole word matches only.
> However, I found some bug as below text
>
> Known that I have turned on ONLY wo = true for whole word matches.
> Given I have text as below, I search for "$test" It returns nothing.
> ($test)
> ($test)
> ($test)
>
> If I change my search text to "test", I can find all the 3 lines results.
>
> Is this a bug ? Any workaround?

It's not a bug: by default, "$" won't be counted as a word character.
However, it is possible to change the set of characters that Scintilla treats as word-characters (and also what is treated as whitespace and punctuation).

At the moment, I don't think QScintilla provides a way to do this through the high-level api. (It is possible to re-implement the QSciLexer wordCharacters function, but I think this will only directly affect auto-completion). Instead, you could try setting the word-characters through the low-level api, i.e.:

     SendScintilla(SCI_SETWORDCHARS, characters)

Note that setting the word-characters in this way will change the behaviour of Scintilla in several ways, not just finding text. For instance, double-clicking a word to select it will include any new characters you have added.

For more info, see the Scintilla docs:

     http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_SETWORDCHARS

And also the QsciScintillaBase docs:


http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/QScintilla2/classQsciScintillaBase.html#pub-methods

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Regards
Baz Walter
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