It would be nice if the local (single) file search was improved to support:
- selection: search only in selected text
- word case: sensitive or insensitive
- whole word match or not
- regexp: …
Some of these are currently covered by plugins.
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@WhiteNoise, I don’t know why your change in ‘technique’ as a Mod from simply responding to posts to also suggesting feature requests, but I for one sure do appreciate it. Gives me a chance to Like the suggestion/idea and then Watch for how others respond. Keep it up.
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I’d be shocked if this wasn’t requested somewhere, but if it has been, I can’t find it.
Use case or problem
I need to search and replace on a case-sensitive basis. I need to replace “his” with “my” and “His” with “My.”
Proposed solution
Add a checkbox that allows to find & replace dialog to opt in to case-sensitive search.
Current workaround (optional)
At the moment, I search for lowercase and then manually replace when it finds the uppercase version.
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I am also surprised no-one seems to miss this. I just had to fix up a note, where the character encoding has been messed up, somehow. The only way was to manually search and replace each crumbled word. However, sometimes the words are beginning a sentence and start upper case. Just to mention a use-case…
A big +1 from my side. In the meantime:
For a hacky workaround see here.
@wmbenedetto: I know it’s a bit late, but there is a plugin called “Regex Find/Replace” that uses case sensitive search by default.
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If I hit Cmd + F within a note, this pops up:
It doesn’t let you search within the current note case-sensitively. Can we add a “Match case” toggle to this search dialog?
This is particularly useful for Find and Replace, which I often do within a note. I usually need to match exactly by case to be able to Replace All quickly.
Edit: Originally posted here, Case sensitive note search. Moved here as duplicate.
+1 to this feature.
It also be great if it shows how many matched results in search. I need that for my Thesaurus file to see if I have duplicated words.
Original topic for show number of matches in Cmd + F
I don’t understand why this basic feature hasn’t been added since the first versions? For both search and replace, such functionality is a must. Third-party plugins can certainly be used, but they don’t have the same visual flexibility and apply to all text at once.
