Find text in console

Matteo

@cvp Yes! you are right, sorry, two buttons on console line! You created a second button at left of input line, Thank you again!

cvp

@Matteo said:

two buttons on console line

Do you see two buttons on the console line?

Matteo

@cvp no no, I badly explained myself sorry, I meant I see your button search at left, at right I see the built-in recall command icons and the execute command is the return key of keyboard, yes sorry. I'm excited...

cvp

@Matteo 👍

Matteo

Hi @cvp, thanks again for your code, it helps me a lot! I tried to change it in order to clear highlighting of the text before each touch of the "Find" button, because if I search different words, the console becomes too colored and I can't understand where the last word is selected.

If you want and have time, can you show me how to change your code in order to remove all highlighting before each touch of your "Find" user key?

Thanks
Bye

cvp

@Matteo that is strange, because when you tap the find button, I remove all colored buttons before to create new ones, thus no overlap of multiple searches.
Did you change something?
I just retry and there is no problem...

Could you post your code if not exactly mine

Matteo

@cvp Hi thanks for reply, with Pythonista I use (v.3.1 301016) on ios 10.3.3 I have different behavior from you , that is when I touch Find key , the previous highligtings can't disappear (text become red and more red...). Maybe it is due to different objc implementation of new version of Pythonista.

I will try again , if I will notice some different behavior I will let you know.

Thank you
Regards

cvp

@Matteo ok. I use Pythonista last beta on iOS 13.3.

Matteo

@cvp Hi, sorry I'm feel very unskilled, no objc problem, I must use Python3, no Python2...

Problem solved!

Sorry I ask you :when you touch built-in key Clear in console do you have the clear of full console content and the color red of last highligthed text?

Thanks

cvp

@Matteo I thought about this problem of python 2 or 3 overnight and I wanted to check this morning because I "remove SUIButton_PY3 objects" ... Great that you found it

cvp

@Matteo said:

clear of full console content and the color red of last highligthed text?

You're right, that's a problem. My script does not know when you tap the clear button thus it is not able to also clear the couloured buttons. I'll try to find something but not promised

temporarily, you would have to clear manually the console line then tap the 🔍 button, colorful buttons will be removed

Edit: if you have cleared the console, tap only the 🔍 button, even without clearing the search text, all highlighted words will disappear

Matteo

@cvp You are right, to clear all I can use your Search button with empty text, perfect.

Many thanks for your help!

Regards

cvp

@Matteo And, if you tap the standard clear button, you can, after, tap the search button even without clearing the searched text. As the console is cleared, there is no occurrence to find, thus all highlighted will be removed

cvp

@Matteo small update if you want a case insensitive search

				for m in re.finditer('(?i)'+txt, t):

Matteo

Hi @cvp , nice, yes no need to clear the search text field! And thanks also for insensitive search!

Sorry if I ask you something else, answer only if it's something that interests you too: is it possible to have a second version of your script that can search text with python Regex? I think a second script for only Regex would be simpler than adding a setting flag (that user could change by executing a script associated to another custom user key) that allows user to switch from regex to simple text and viceversa with your original script.

For example, if I have the console output with a lot of text data and I want to select all text (numbers) after word value: , I'd like to use the regex pattern (?<=value: )(.*) in order to highlight all after word value: (to the new row/line).

Do you think it is possible? I ask you this because, although it is something that would help me a lot, I can't understand how to enable Regex searching by taking inspiration from your update about insensitive search.

Thanks
Bye

cvp

@Matteo these lines can find both texts or regex patterns:

				for m in re.finditer(txt, t):
					st,en =m.span()
					p1 = tv.positionFromPosition_offset_(tv.beginningOfDocument(), st)
					p2 = tv.positionFromPosition_offset_(tv.beginningOfDocument(), en)

Please, note that if you type a text, it is case sensitive (back)

And you don't need two different search buttons

Note also that the regex you gave as example needs a space after value:

Matteo

@cvp Wonderful!

I can't understand how it is possible to have regex mode by modifying the code from

st,end=m.span()
...
p2 = tv.positionFromPosition_offset_(tv.beginningOfDocument(), st+len(txt))

to

st,en =m.span()
...
p2 = tv.positionFromPosition_offset_(tv.beginningOfDocument(), en)

Magic of programming and of those who know how to use this magic ...

Thank you very much!
Regards

cvp

@Matteo no real magic. 1st version was ok but only for a text. 2nd version really uses start and end of search

cvp

@Matteo if you want to use different colors to search different words, you can use the regex | and modify the script as


					if '|' not in txt:
						l.background_color = (1,0,0,0.2)
					else:
						# search multiple strings
						wrds = txt.split('|')
						idx = wrds.index(t[st:en])
						cols = [(1,0,0,0.2), (0,1,0,0.2), (0,0,1,0.2), (1,1,0,0.2), (1,0,1,0.2), (0,1,1,0.2)]
						col = cols[idx % len(cols)]
						l.background_color = col

Obviously, you can put the cols initialization outside the loop but, here, it is only to show only one group of modified lines

Matteo

@cvp Thank you, very nice and useful!

As a curiosity, maybe I didn't understand before: do you know if the highlighted text with your script can be also copied in clipboard or it is impossible due to limits of OMTextView?

If it is impossible to copy the highlighted text in Pythonista clipboard, do you know if a script exists that can write (in background, that is during Pythonista usage), in an external text file, the full output of the console, and the external file updates itself after each output print in console?

Thank you for your interest :-)
Bye