markerikson / joplin-plugin-vscode-style-search

A Joplin plugin that provides a search UI panel patterned after VS Code, with matches per note and per-match hit highlighting

VS-Code Style Search Plugin for Joplin

This Joplin plugin provides a note search panel that is patterned after the search panel in VS Code. Search for text, and matches will be shown grouped by file, one line per match, with the match text highlighted. Both plain text and regular expression syntax should work.

You can search for text just in note titles with the "Search in titles only" checkbox. (This only returns exact title prefix matches by default - you may need to use regular expression syntax like note* to search for partial title matches.)

Toggle the panel with CTRL-SHIFT-F.

Status

This is a brand-new plugin, and there's a lot of possible search options that could be added. Some ideas:

• Scroll to a specific match line when clicked
• Toggle case sensitivity
• Limit searches to specific note folders, or ignore folders
• Pagination
• Switching to a view that shows each match with multiple lines of context above and below (similar to VS Code's "Show in Editor" popout panel)

I may not hae much time to work on new features myself, but happy to accept PRs!

joplin-plugin-vscode-style-search's Issues

Moral support for developing

It is not an issue, but a post for moral support for developing.
This plugin is a nice start. It would be great if your plugin could highlight the results in the notes.

Feature Requests

Collected from the initial search thread:

https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/search-functionality-in-joplin/35787/74?u=acemarke

• Can the search results be displayed in a notebook structure?
• Can the search results display the path where the notes are located?
• Can the search scope include the path where the note is located, in addition to the note title and body text?

https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/search-functionality-in-joplin/35787/77?u=acemarke

• Can the search bar be focused upon showing the panel?
• If the above is too invasive, can a keyboard shortcut be added to focus the search bar?
• Can a plugin settings page option be added to preserve search results when hiding the panel?
• Can clicking a note's result line scroll to where it's located in the note, like how HTML anchors work?