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


From: Tassilo Horn
Subject: Re: Use Vertico + consult to do the search for an exact word.
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 11:47:45 +0200
User-agent: mu4e 1.11.6; emacs 30.0.50

Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.

That's because $ is a word-character in the syntax-table of the mode you
are using in that buffer.  You can try
\([^a-zA-Z]\|\b\)id\([^a-zA-Z]\|\b\) which should also find $id$ and
1id02.

Bye,
Tassilo



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