[scintilla:feature-requests] #1570 Option to copy only matching lines to clipboard in filter view

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Georger Araujo

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Nov 14, 2025, 10:42:54 AMNov 14
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[feature-requests:#1570] Option to copy only matching lines to clipboard in filter view

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This is on SciTE 5.5.8 on Windows 11 24H2.

If I apply a filter, select the displayed matching lines, then Edit / Copy them, all lines from the first to the last, not just the matching ones, are copied to the clipboard. Please consider adding an option to allow SciTE to copy only the matching lines to the clipboard.

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Neil Hodgson

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Nov 14, 2025, 3:16:00 PMNov 14
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Its likely possible to write a script that does this.

Georger Araujo

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Thanks for the pointer. I tried to use message SCI_GETLINEVISIBLE (see [1]) but got the error Pane function / readable property / indexed writable property name expected with the following code:

function CopySelectedVisibleLines()
    local editor = editor
    local startPos = editor.SelectionStart
    local endPos   = editor.SelectionEnd

    local startLine = editor:LineFromPosition(startPos)
    local endLine   = editor:LineFromPosition(endPos)

    local result = {}

    for line = startLine, endLine do
        -- Query Scintilla directly: returns 1 if visible, 0 if hidden/contracted
        local visible = editor:SendMsg(SCI_GETLINEVISIBLE, line, 0)
        if visible ~= 0 then
            -- Get line text (includes trailing newline)
            local txt = editor:GetLine(line)
            table.insert(result, txt)
        end
    end

    -- Join and put into clipboard
    scite.SetClipboard(table.concat(result))
end

It seems that get bool GetLineVisible=2228(line line,) from scintilla/include/Scintilla.iface is not available in the Pane API.

[1] https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_GETLINEVISIBLE
[2] https://www.scintilla.org/PaneAPI.html

[feature-requests:#1570] Option to copy only matching lines to clipboard in filter view

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