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GSoC 2018 Final Submission Report 

GSoC 2018 Final Submission Report - Find Enhancements

Overview

The aim of this project was to enhance the search and replace functionality of xi editor. I extended xi editor to allow search using regular expressions, replacements of matched strings and multiple search queries. Additionally, I integrated a more advanced interface for find and replace into xi-mac as well as highlighting matching text in opened documents.

Work Completed

  • Outsource find logic from view.rs into separate file: #649
  • Plan and implement new RPCs for Find:
  • Sending and processing the find status sent from backend to frontend: #190, #688, #687
  • Search using regular expressions in xi editor: #658
  • Support "Selection for find": #701, #202
  • Support "Add next to selection": #704, #203
  • Support "Split Selection into Lines": #239, #770
  • Plan and implement Replace functionality: #720, #207
  • Implement an interface for find and replace into xi-mac:
    • Discussion and Planning: #179
    • Implementation was iterative and distributed over many commits

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Work in Progress

  • Support multiple search queries: #745, #229

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This work is currently under review.

Future Work

  • Minor improvement of regex search to avoid the copy based on Cow: #658
  • Colorizing of results based on groupings when using regular expressions
  • Search all files in directory or workspace
  • Currently the colors for highlighting multiple search queries are hardcoded. It would be better to allow loading of custom themes that define these colors.

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