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 😄

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[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