I would like to see the backlinks pane have the search pane embedded (one for linked mentions and one for unlinked mentions) so that whatever you put in the search bar would be appended to the search for linked and unlinked mentions. We would get the full search functionality to filter backlinks and search results would be backlink results so you get the collapse feature.
Then as new features are added to search, they would be available to backlinks.
Hey Iām working on a fix for this using Regex searching. @verma Could you tell me a specific use case so that I can test my method and post it here soon?
@verma So it is possible to do this with search. You could search for [[water]] [[pH]] and get the same result as if you were filtering the backlinks pane. If you have spaces in your links, you would need to wrap them in quotes.
Also appear in the same block where [[water]] appears.
The following regex search string will search for things from the same sentence (not blocks, but I hope it might still be helpful). By the same sentence, I mean continuously typing without pressing the āReturnā key.
I created a sample page.
I did the following search.
/ (?=.*?\[\[water)(?=.*?acidic)
And there was a hit !
If I split the sentence such that [[water]] and [[acidic]] are not part of the same sentence (paragraph/block), you donāt get any results (which is what we are looking for)
You can also add more terms to the search or do boolean operation in this. Let me know what you think @verma
yes, by one block I meant one paragraph so no return key
I am still totally new to the regex world, but yes I tried replacing the words and I could hit most of the matches, so thatās a wonderful start to be frank !
maybe I will try some more of this myself and then I should be able to address you properly.
Let me give a quick breakdown of what I have done. / signifies the start of the regex syntax (?=.*?\[\[water) - This is the first block. In this block, anything after the second question mark is what we are searching for. \[\[water basically means [[water. Those back slashes are used to escape the [ character since those characters have meaning in regex. (?=.*?acidic) - This is the second block. This contains the second word in our search term. In this case, it is acidic.
Note that you can add more blocks to include more words, for instance,
/ (?=.*?\[\[water)(?=.*?acidic)(?=.*?pH)
The above statement would do an AND search using the three terms we have specified. We could also use OR as follows,