search query should not strip spaces

[dwelle]

Spaces are significant. Right now the workaround is to use regexp search and replace spaces with \s, which is not ideal since it also matches EOL.

Narrow 0.65.0, Win7, Atom 1.26.1

[t9md]

Yes, that is limitation, you cannot search space surrounded keyword.
Current query spec is here https://github.com/t9md/atom-narrow/wiki/Query.

Using space as query keyword separator, I cannot keep bare white-space intact.

My suggestion is use \s. if it's not sufficient, try [\s].
OK, doesn't work to exclude matching to EOL. I admit it is a limitation.

[dwelle]

Maybe having an option so we can toggle behavior to tokenize AND operator on & instead of SPACE?

[t9md]

That's one idea, then we have to escape & when we want to search literal &.

Another idea I implemented experimentally but removed is to "set query end manually by special command" such as narrow-ui:set-query-end.
Let's say you have foo bar .| buz text at prompt line and | here is your cursor(not literal pipe char).
Then you execute narrow-ui:set-query-end via some short-cut.
Then foo bar . is passed to ag as one query. then remaining buz is used to filter ag's output as always.

What do you think of this idea?

[dwelle]

Why not.. If I understand it correctly, to search for foo bar baz via AND, you'd place multiple cursors: foo|bar|buz and run narrow-ui:set-query-end?

Now, it depends on how much you use what. Can be a drag if user wants to use both AND operator and space in their regexes, on regular basis.

For me, I personally didn't know that foo bar baz does AND-search. I just quite heavily use space in my regex searches. But since learning about the AND-search behavior, I can imagine I'll use both AND-search and space-in-regexes, quite regularly -- and then narrow-ui:set-query-end might become a bottleneck.

IMO, using & for AND-search and having to escape \& for literal & char isn't that crazy since people (only me?) don't to too many searches containing & char.

Either way, I'm not opposed to any solution that allows my beloved space to be added to regexes :)