Under Linux, "Find in Files" with a '$' character doesn't work

[Jingcheng Zhang]

I cannot find a text with '$' in it, the result is invalid. But under windows it works correctly.

Seems the '$' is hijacked by linux shell which makes the problem. How to solve?

Thanks!

[Neil Hodgson]

Jingcheng Zhang:

I cannot find a text with '$' in it, the result is invalid. But under windows it works correctly.

Seems the '$' is hijacked by linux shell which makes the problem. How to solve?

On Linux, the Find in Files command works by running another SciTE process with the text provided as a command-line argument.

The '$' should be quoted with '\' to avoid shell interpretation so '\$'. This can be done in the Slash function.

Another problem is that there is an extra layer of variable interpretation for $(variable) in SciTEBase::Execute that should be avoided for this case.

It would likely be better to reimplement using threads instead of processes as is done for Windows and MacOS.

Neil

[Jingcheng Zhang]

Hi Neil,

I tried to search "\$2800", but the executed command becomes:

SciTE -grep ~~~~ "" "" "\\$2800"

The result is invalid, it adds another "\" character inside. But if I call SciTE in command line directly, it works:

SciTE -grep ~~~~ "" "" "\$2800"

This result is valid. So how can I remove the extra "\" character added by the Find in Files command?

[godstech]

Try single quotes to avoid interpolation:

SciTE -grep ~~~~ "" "" '$2800'

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[Neil Hodgson]

Jingcheng Zhang::

I tried to search "\$2800", but the executed command becomes:

SciTE -grep ~~~~ "" "" "\\$2800"

   The Slash function protects the \ you entered by converting it to \\. This Slash function likely needs to change while not affecting other callers.

gods...@gmail.com:

Try single quotes to avoid interpolation:

Unfortunately, replacing double quotes with single quotes in the code would make it difficult to search for single quotes.

Neil

[Jingcheng Zhang]

Hi Neil,

On Monday, September 30, 2024 at 2:03:54 PM UTC+8 Neil Hodgson wrote:

 

On Linux, the Find in Files command works by running another SciTE process with the text provided as a command-line argument.

...

It would likely be better to reimplement using threads instead of processes as is done for Windows and MacOS.

I wonder if this change is planned in the future. Switching to the command line to execute the "SciTE -grep" command every time is tedious :(

Thanks,

Jingcheng

[Neil Hodgson]

Jingcheng Zhang:

 

I wonder if this change is planned in the future. Switching to the command line to execute the "SciTE -grep" command every time is tedious :(

   Using threads for find in files on Linux like the other platforms would be a good project for someone to develop.

   I don't have a list of features that I plan to do as facing a long feature backlog would be disheartening.

   Neil