use javascript in “find” field

[Haale]

Is it possible to use javascript in "find" filed?
For example, read a regular expression string from a text file and convert the raw string to the format string (like transforming backslash into double backslash,double quote into backslash+double quote) that javascript accepts.

Or have the "Find and Transform" supported that feature already?

[ArturoDent]

How do you want to use this exactly? In general, you can not use javascript to create a find query from code selected in a file (although that is an interesting idea), but you can use regex's in text as find queries. If you have no find in your keybinding/setting, this extension will use any selections in the file as the find queries.

If you have text like someText\d+.ext\d

and select it, then text like this will match and be selected and replaced if you have a replace field:

someText1.ext0
someText222.ext1
someText3333.ext2

{
  "key": "alt+e",
  "command": "findInCurrentFile",
  "args": {
    "isRegex": true,             // MUST have this for the selection(s) to be treated as a regex
    // "replace": "some replacement"
  }
},

You can even select 2 or more regex's in the file and have them all select any matches:

Is there something else you wanted to do not covered by the above?

[Haale]

How do you want to use this exactly? In general, you can not use javascript to create a find query from code selected in a file (although that is an interesting idea), but you can use regex's in text as find queries. If you have no find in your keybinding/setting, this extension will use any selections in the file as the find queries.

If you have text like someText\d+.ext\d

and select it, then text like this will match and be selected and replaced if you have a replace field:

someText1.ext0
someText222.ext1
someText3333.ext2

{
  "key": "alt+e",
  "command": "findInCurrentFile",
  "args": {
    "isRegex": true,             // MUST have this for the selection(s) to be treated as a regex
    // "replace": "some replacement"
  }
},

You can even select 2 or more regex's in the file and have them all select any matches:

Is there something else you wanted to do not covered by the above?

Noted