Feature request: Limit searches to section of file

[driessen]

Often, I have a big log file and I know in which section I want to search. Typical example is that I want to see what happens to "widget" between two events or timestamps. I'd like to first search to find the events, timestamps or whatever limits my section, mark these lines as section-begin and section-end, and then have all search commands be limited to this section. If only one of section-begin and section-end is set, the other is assumed to be start / end of file.

[variar]

I've actually implemented this in my fork (used to work with multi-gigabyte log files with many search patterns). Implementation has some UI issues but search works as expected. I can create a branch with just these changes to be merged to glogg.

Work was done in this branch, however it is pretty old and might not be good base for clean merge.

[nickbnf]

I have an idea on how we could define "sections" in a file and operate on either or all of them, that would include search.