[Feature] Advanced search modes

[trustin]

Hi! Thank you so much for this extremely useful extension. I'm loving it so far. 🙇

One wish I have for this extension is the ability to do filter the file list using a negative lookup. For example, let's say we have the following file tree:

a
- b
  - c
  - d
- e

In a very large tree, I want to exclude everything under a/b. I tried to filter them out by using a regular expression such as (?!b) and (?!a/b), but it doesn't seem to filter out anything.

Would it be possible to add support for negative lookahead/behind regular expressions?

[EnixCoda]

Hi @trustin

I can see that you want an advanced search mode. Actually, negative lookahead/behind regular expressions are already supported. However, for now, regular expressions are applied to file/folder names, instead of paths. That is why you got confused. I will update the description of search modes to prevent that.

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And if the regular expressions are applied to paths, there will be no way to highlight results because matched characters of different paths can vary and get users more confused.

For now, I'd suggest manually collapse those folders you'd like to exclude after searching.

We can keep this issue open to see more users need advanced search mode.

[EnixCoda]

The advanced search mode can be either

1. simply applying regular expressions to paths
2. or a more complicated UI with multiple inputs for including and excluding rules.