Find dialog improvement: allow to search by regexp

[CyrilleB79]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Text search is widely used by blind people, more widely than by sighted ones. That's why NVDA has a specific dialog to perform search in a browseable document.
Sometimes however, the text that needs to be found is not a specific word/string but rather a pattern, e.g. a number.

Describe the solution you'd like

I suggest to add an option in NVDA's find dialog to allow to search specifying a regex rather than a normal text string.

Considering this is a feature targeting advanced users, we may hide it, e.g.:

• put it under a "more options" button in the find dialog
• or displaying this option only if a "Use advanced find dialog" checkbox is checked in the Advanced settings dialog

Or we may leave this option accessible to all, considering that another regex option is already accessible in NVDA's dictionary dialogs.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Implement this in an add-on. See the following request:
marlon-sousa/EnhancedFindDialog#24

Additional context

None

[XLTechie]

+1 as well. My use case, is when searching a large web page or page with a giant table, for several terms that might mean the same thing. It would be most useful to be able to or those terms, and search all at once.

[seanbudd]

Reopening as this issue follows the issue template and more efficiently summaries #6916 - see this issue for more discussion/history
We generally encourage new issues to replace old issues without the template and hard to follow discussion

[XLTechie]

IMO the most important concern from the old issue, is #6916 (comment), from @jcsteh.
Anyone considering working on this should be aware.

[Adriani90]

Yes but that‘s your subjective opinion. Commenting on the old one with constructive arguments is also interesting also for others who contributed there. I would also tag @dkager. And as we can see, in this way things get noisy. Lets continue the constructive discussion in the old request. Von meinem iPhone gesendetAm 23.04.2024 um 09:42 schrieb Luke Davis ***@***.***>: IMO the most important concern from the old issue, is #6916 (comment), from @jcsteh. Anyone considering working on this should be aware. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>