Understanding the radio buttons in Persistent Highlights

[claremacrae]

Apologies if I missed it in the docs, but can you please say that the radio buttons mean in "Persistent Highlights" against regex rules:

• matches
• parent line
• start
• end

Perhaps tool tips/hover tips might help?

[nothingislost]

Agreed that this needs better documentation. For now, those toggles control how and where CSS classes are applied.

• matches: any string matching the search query will be wrapped in a <span class="[highlightName]">
• parent: any line containing a string that matches the search query will marked with the highlighter name <div class="cm-line [highlightName]">
• start: any string matching the search query will be prefixed with an empty span <span class="[highlightName]-start"></span>
• end: any string matching the search query will be suffixed with an empty span <span class="[highlightName]-end"></span>
• capture groups: only appears when using regex queries and will wrap any named capture groups with a class matching the capture group name

[claremacrae]

Thank you! I wouldn't have guessed that, but I can see how it's really useful.

[stefanopagliari]

@nothingislost, do you have any example of hour I can use the "parent" filter? I would like to put a border around tasks. I have been identifying tasks using ^- \[.\] .*$ but the border is applied to individual elements, not the entire line. If I switch from "matches" to "parent", the regex is not being picked up. I guess I am misunderstanding the functioning.