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Outliner for taking notes and managing to-do lists
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examples of basic text searches #935

Open gitshub opened 2 years ago

gitshub commented 2 years ago

I think Ogzly can do AND/OR searches within the text of nodes. For example (computer|work)&email which even some desktop implementations cannot (see https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/advanced-searching.htmll).

But I can't find an actual example of basic searches. I looked in:

"Getting Started with OrgzlyGetting Started with Orgzly" notebook documentation at http://www.orgzly.com/help#search-expressions
proposal at https://github.com/orgzly/documentation/blob/master/searching-proposal.org

Trying

item1 OR item2

just finds nodes with all three words, since AND is the default and I am not properly using the OR operator.

Could you give me some examples?

Also I would like to search for something like "_item", but the underline is ignored (unlike # and & which apparently are seen). Is there a way to get underline and other special characters to be included in a search, perhaps by quoting the string?

Finally are you considering allowing regular expression searches?

Thanks for your help