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Source files for "An Introduction to VisiData"
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Clarify how to configure case-sensitive searches #41

Closed rschwiebert closed 10 months ago

rschwiebert commented 1 year ago

The docs say

Searches in VisiData are, by default, case-insensitive. You can change this in VisiData’s options.

It took me entirely too long to figure out that regex_flags is the relevant flag, and that is defaulting to I. Honestly I'd never seen the re.compile options used before. And then it took a little bit longer to determine that configuring the setting = '' and not = was necessary.

I think it'd be helpful to be explicit about it.

jsvine commented 1 year ago

Thanks for flagging this, @rschwiebert! I agree with your assessment. I'll aim to make the instructions more explicit in the next update.

radostyle commented 11 months ago

I also had this issue. It took a long time to find out how to do this. I came to this bug report to find out how to make case sensitive searches. Would at least be nice to have case-sensistivity or something in the regex_flag description so you can find it when searching.

saulpw commented 11 months ago

@radostyle what version are you using? In develop branch (soon to be 3.0) there's a side panel with help information for the flags.

jsvine commented 10 months ago

Thanks for flagging @rschwiebert, thanks for the seconding @radostyle, and thanks for the preview @saulpw. For now, I've addressed this in f73c51e, now live:

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Closing for now, but feel free to continue the conversation and/or propose better phrasing.

rschwiebert commented 10 months ago

@jsvine Thanks!

radostyle commented 10 months ago

Nice, Thanks!

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