Re: Use Vertico + consult to do the search for an exact word.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 2:54 PM Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > In Emacs, I use Vertico + consult to do the in-buffer and minibuffer
> > search and bind bound the command `consult-line' to M-s l.
> >
> > What puzzles me is that this cannot let me search for an exact word.
> > For example, if I want to sear all the occurrences of the word `id',
> > the result obtained is shown in the attached file, which obviously is
> > not what I want.
> >
> > How to achieve my goal based on Vertico + consult for utilizing the
> > more intuitive minibuffer display?
>
> I don't use consult myself but I guess the search string is a regular
> expression.  So when you want to search for an exact word, use \bid\b to
> find all occurrences of the word id.

I've tried this trick, but it cannot match the results like `$id$', as
shown in the attached screenshot, from where you can see that the
entry indexed by the circle numbered 1 doesn't appear in the
minibuffer's matching list.

> See (info "(elisp) Regexp Backslash") for details:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ‘\b’
>      matches the empty string, but only at the beginning or end of a
>      word.  Thus, ‘\bfoo\b’ matches any occurrence of ‘foo’ as a
>      separate word.  ‘\bballs?\b’ matches ‘ball’ or ‘balls’ as a
>      separate word.
>
>      ‘\b’ matches at the beginning or end of the buffer (or string)
>      regardless of what text appears next to it.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> HTH,
> Tassilo

Regards,
Zhao

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