Re: searching in the source browser

[Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

Am 05.09.22 um 21:07 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context:
> On 9/5/22 20:28, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
>> Hi, this is probably for Taco:
>>
>> Is there a possibility in the source browser to search for macros
>> (\something) or anything containing dots (logs.errors)?
>> Because neither “simple” nor with Lua patterns I get any results.
>>
>> E.g. I wanted to look for all trackers and/or directives.
> 
> Hi Hraban,
> 
> has it to be the source browser?
> 
> I mean, I use grep in Linux (MSYS2 in Windows [and brew.sh is available
> for macOS]) and it works perfectly fine with ConTeXt.
> 
>    $ grep -irl fi[eë][eë] context
>    context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/char-def.lua
>    context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/lilypond/t-lilypond.tex
> 
> Althought regular expressions are fine, I don’t know why "fi[eë]+"
> doesn’t work in this case.
> 
> Just in case it might help,

Thank you – I found

grep -R "regex" ~/context

to be most easy.

But I like the source browser with its syntax highlighting, and it’s a 
pity that the search is so limited.

Hraban
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