Re: Filtered view

Wow. Awesome. 

This will go straight into my workflow. 

Many thanks

Kind Regards Gavin Holt 

PS. Where can I download sc1.exe with the new filter function?



On Wednesday, 11 August 2021 at 04:42:28 UTC+1 Neil Hodgson wrote:

>    A proposal was made 2 years ago to include a way to view just the lines 
> that match a search string. This has progressed recently with much of the 
> feature implemented on Win32 and GTK. There could still be some bugs and 
> the functionality may need refinement. The current code has been uploaded 
> so other people can experiment with it.
>
>    An image of the filter view on Windows, showing 2 lines of context 
> around each match is at
> https://www.scintilla.org/FilterContext.png
>
>    There is a separate filter view accessed from Search | Filter. The last 
> icon on the filter strip toggles context on/off. The replace strip can also 
> filter: the third icon on the top row toggles filter view on/off and there 
> is a context toggle to its right.
>
>    A screenshot on GTK, with the replace strip in filter mode:
> https://www.scintilla.org/FilterGTK.png
>    The new ‘filter’ and ‘context’ buttons are surrounded with orange.
>
>    The number of lines of context is defined by the filter.context 
> property. Hidden lines are indicated with a line drawn with the value of 
> the hidden.line.colour property. Matches are shows with the indicator 
> specified with the find.indicator.incremental property. When context is 
> shown, the match lines are highlighted with yellow which is currently hard 
> coded but should be a property.
>
>    The source code can be downloaded from
> https://www.scintilla.org/scitefilter.zip
>    A Windows 64-bit executable is at 
> https://www.scintilla.org/wscite.zip
>
>    The feature request is at
> https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/1249/
>
>    Current issues:
>
>    Scintilla doesn’t support hiding the first line. Its possible that this 
> could be improved. If not, it might be reasonable to make the first line 
> blank by drawing the background colour over it.
>
>    As it may take some time to search the whole document when large, this 
> is performed as a background idle task. This sometimes causes more flashing 
> as lines are shown and hidden.
>
>    The original proposal added another toggle button for incremental 
> search. This is currently a property. There are arguments both ways on how 
> best to control incremental search.
>
>    The amount of context is set with a property. It may be better to 
> include a way to change this interactively.
>
>    Any folds are unfolded for filter view and there are attempts to 
> restore folds after filter view ends. This may not work in all cases such 
> as when the fold structure is changed while the view is filtered - perhaps 
> a ‘{‘ was added or removed.
>
>    Neil
>
>

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