support multiline search

[windwp]

support multiline search

                ['multiline'] = {
                    desc = 'search multiline',
                    icon = '[M]',
                    value = '--multiline',
                },

problem

• if we add this to rg search option we can search across multi line with \n but it have wrong total result because we read everyline and map it to a result

• the highlight is not correct too because we use vim to highlight vim doesn't support \n. It only read 1 line to highlight

• sed is not support replace with range on multiple line. I use sed because it use a same syntax of vim and vim group name replace. but it will broken on multiple

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/b385fa7ceb2b537e0ba2b58edaa162f4e299a947/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/ripgrepTextSearchEngine.ts

current solution is search 1 line and use quickfix to run macro cdo 😄

[windwp]

it have some problem to use vim matchstr to highlight sample
you can search pattern [\w\.]* but vimregex don't allow use \w inside [] it need to change to `[a-zA-Z.]* and sed don't support than pattern to replace.

[danielo515]

Is this a wont-fix?
I will be happy to have all the search results in one page and be able to edit them manually.

[mercxry]

Any updates on this? This is one of the few reasons where I find myself opening VSCode 😅

[vizcay]

Have to admit, in the ocassions needed (like now for me 😆), this will be really useful.

[EpsilonKu]

with #17 it motivates me to use another replace tool or write own. Will look to it

[akoskm]

I don't want to fire up VSCode for changes like these 😃 Any solutions? Doesn't have to be in spectre, sed is fine too.

Sometimes I want to remove file owner comments bulk, something like this (note the new line after the comment):

// @team TeamA

With sed I could remove the first line:

find . -type f -name '*.*' -exec sed -i '' '/^\/\/ @team TeamA$/d' {} +

But I can't remove the extra newline after. I tried to get answers from ChatGPT, but it always ended up removing more lines than I initially wanted.

[yriveiro]

Hi,

Found myself in the same situation, not being able to also replace the '\n' at the end of the string to not replace with an empty line force me to use another tool than Spectre 😭

[akoskm]

another tool

care to share?

[pithecantrope]

In python, you can add inline flag with (?m) - multiline, (?i) - ignorecase and so on. I would LOVE to see this! The fact that there is no Multiline search is terrifying :(

[yriveiro]

another tool

care to share?

In my case I was removing items from a YAML list, I ended up crafting a small Python script and the replacement at scale