Discussion: ideas for stored searches

[bruno-]

As described in the defining new stored searches doc, this plugin enables you to define your own, custom searches.

Let's tap into the community ideas and see what others came up with or are missing.

Use this thread to:

• share what "custom" searches you use (and in which situations)
• request for something you'd like to search but can't (or don't know how)

Interesting searches will be added to Useful searches section.

[ctjhoa]

Get commit hash in git log
set -g @copycat_search_WHATEVER '^commit[[:space:]]*'

[justmytwospence]

Amazon jobflow ID
set -g @copycat_search_C-j 'j-[[:alnum:]]*'

[AnAppAMonth]

I have a stored search for quoted text:
set -g @copycat_search_C-q '\"[^\"]*\"'

Frequently filenames, error messages and other important info are quoted in a program's output.

However, I'm unable to match single quotes, even escaping doesn't work. Is this a bug or am I doing it wrong?

[bruno-]

@AnAppAMonth, interesting idea. Thanks for the submission.

I think a single quote searches could have a bug! I also just tried it and got an error.
Please open an issue with the description of what you tried. A pull request for this is also very welcome.

[jbnicolai]

@ctjhoa improved the regex to match SHA1 hashes in every output format. See #73

[davidjb]

Pull request for email address search over at #78

[konstantinstadler]

Get the last entry of a line if it is standard filename.

set -g @copycat_search_C-l '[a-zA-Z0-9_-./]+$'

This works for filenames without any path (basename - as for example for ls -l) and for git status if you are not in the root of the repo.

[endrebak]

Often people have the pwd on their bash prompt like so (fish truncates all but the last paths to one letter):

endrebak@havpryd ~/c/c/workflows>

I'd like some way of avoiding those in the file search, but dunno if that is possible.

[alphaCTzo7G]

Can we have these searches in a way similar to vim-text-objects? That would make it much easier to remember and increase the key-combination space available to reduce clashes.

[diepfote]

Match kubernetes objects
e.g. "asdf-gk8nr" or "asdf-foo-7bdcf85cf5-97x64"
set -g @copycat_search_C-k '[A-Za-z0-9-]+-[a-f0-9]{10}-[a-z0-9]{5}|[A-Za-z0-9-]+-[a-z0-9]{5}'

[diepfote]

Match 32 bit or 64 bit addresses
e.g. "0xffffd53a", "0xffffd53affffd53a", "ffffd53a" or "ffffd53affffd53a"
set -g @copycat_search_a '0x[A-Fa-f0-9]{8}|0x[A-Fa-f0-9]{16}|[A-Fa-f0-9]{8}|[A-Fa-f0-9]{16}' # 32 or 64 bit adresses

[nilesh-akhade]

The example here

set -g @copycat_search_G '\b[0-9a-f]{5,40}\b'

should be

set -g @copycat_search_G '\b[0-9a-f]{5}|[0-9a-f]{40}\b'