Feature Request: Regex search of notes

[jjisnow]

Under 'search or create note', it would be great to create some variation of a regex or plain text option similar to how there is an option in the in-note search to use regex.

[pbek]

How would that look like in the user interface?
Currently this is how you can search: https://www.qownnotes.org/getting-started/searching.html

[jjisnow]

Clicking the magnifying glass could bring up a dialogue that might allow for a regex style search of ALL notes, similar to the one at the bottom of notes for regex within a note

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[pbek]

Interaction with the glass sounds like a possible idea (although the glass currently is a background image).
And the reg-exp search shouldn't go against the current search syntax from https://www.qownnotes.org/getting-started/searching.html.

[Waqar144]

I think this will require a bit of work

• A search dialog?
• Possibly a dockwidget to display the search results from all the notes

[jg55]

Not sure how the devs here operate yet as far as requests, but as a recent fan of QOwnNotes, I'd like to give a +1 to this feature request. The more regex the better.

[jjisnow]

You could create a search bar similar to https://www.voidtools.com/en-au/support/everything/ where there's an option in the menu to 'enable regex search' or create a new note under a 'file' option like in most office applications

[quicktrick]

I support this request. Regex search or at least wildcard search is an absolutely necessary feature. Without it, it's impossible to find the right fragments.

[pbek]

https://www.qownnotes.org/getting-started/searching.html?

[Waqar144]

One somewhat simple and fast way to do this could be to use grep or whatever the platform provides to do the search and use the results to create a UI.

[quicktrick]

Excuse me, @pbek, I don't see there a regex or wildcard search options. I saw that page previously. And I tried to find something like foo*bar or foo.*bar and I could not get it working. What am I doing wrong?

[pbek]

I don't see there a regex or wildcard search options.

There is none, you can only do a sub-string search, for your simple case foo*bar that would be foo bar (but in any order).

[quicktrick]

that would be foo bar (but in any order)

But it searches for any of the two words foo or bar separately, and not the sequence foo and some bar.