A regex search mode

[lilydjwg]

@ellie

Fulltext search indices are great for many things that are not natural language. In fact, Tantivy (one I have proposed) is mostly used and developed for searching logs and traces. Which are also not natural language.

OK, but I’m not going to invent in fts5 or tantivy, so I won’t help to implement #1455.

@ellie

Would something like this sort cjk issues for you?

It’s enough for atuin, but not good enough for general use (for Chinese it’s basically unigram-based, but I want bigrams to keep results relevant).

@ellie

I’m not sure what you mean. It’s still pretty easy to match on if you wish to have spaces in between / and /? We can literally just check the prefix and suffix of a query.

I’ll try to implement this.