Case-sensitive search

[Sven]

Hi everyone,
Is there an easy way to make the search case-sensitive?
http://tiddlywiki.com/#Searching%20in%20TiddlyWiki is not very explicit about it. I guess I could manage it with the application of filters but I was wondering whether there is an easier way, e.g. clicking a checkbox or so....
Thanks!

[Eric Shulman]

On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 12:48:27 AM UTC-7, Sven wrote:

Is there an easy way to make the search case-sensitive?
http://tiddlywiki.com/#Searching%20in%20TiddlyWiki is not very explicit about it. I guess I could manage it with the application of filters but I was wondering whether there is an easier way, e.g. clicking a checkbox or so....

The default core definitions for the search interface use a [search{...}] filter to find the matches to your input.  This filter is, by design, case insensitive.

However, if you replace the [search{...}] filter with a [regexp{...}] filter, then it will perform a case-sensitive search by default... and, using [regexp{...}], you can search for *text patterns* rather than just literal text strings.

To change the TW core defaults, you can edit the following two shadow tiddlers:

   $:/core/ui/SideBarLists

      replace "search{$(searchTiddler)$}" with "regexp{$(searchTiddler)$}"

   $:/core/ui/DefaultSearchResultList

      replace "search{$(searchTiddler)$}" with "regexp{$(searchTiddler)$}"

      AND

      replace "search:title{$(searchTiddler)$}" with "regexp:title{$(searchTiddler)$}"

That should do it.

enjoy,

-e

Eric Shulman

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[Sven]

Thanks Eric, that worked fine. :)