Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Search in Filesets

[Bernard D. <bde...@or...>]

Hi John,

> Le 5 nov. 2019 à 16:47, John Morris <joh...@ed...> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Bernard,
>  Thank you for your quick response. I really appreciate all the work you do to keep Alpha working so well.
> 
>  I’m glad to hear that I’m not going crazy. I am confident that you will be able to clear up the trouble. While you are revising the package, it would be nice to offer two other requests.
> 
> 1. You may have noticed that I preface the search expression with (?s). The way I read Alpha's help about regular expressions, this is supposed to be the default. However, I find that it is only turned on sometimes, for certain searches. Therefore, I always have to remember to include that. It would be nice if it really were the default.

I’m not sure the doc is correct there. Might be outdated. I’ll have to check.


> 2. I often need to find an arbitrary number of nested delimiters. I found information about recursive searches that can do this. I know this can be done with some flavors of GREP, but it does not work with Alpha. It would be really cool if it did with in Alpha.

Do you have a pointer to this information about recursive searches. I’m not sure I understand what you’re referring to?