`regex`-based Search for all of them

[Marin-Kitagawa]

Describe the solution you'd like Like everything from Void Tools, I need a feature to search using regex. I always use this. I see that you already have an option to set the file search backend as Everything instead of Fluent Search. But even after selecting the former, I couldn't search using regex. Also, I couldn't find any plugins related to this.

[adirh3]

It should work with Everything, can you find files using Everything as indexer without regex?

[lindeloev]

@Marin-Kitagawa Set Fluent Search to use the Everything backend in Settings --> Files --> File indexer. Then write e.g. "regex:\d.pdf$" to find all pdfs ending in a digit.

Here is the supported regex for Everything: https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/searching/

[Marin-Kitagawa]

@lindeloev Should I use the keyword regex: in front of the search string to actually make it work?

[lindeloev]

@Marin-Kitagawa Yes. Try it,

I haven't found ways to enable it by default. You can enable it locally in Everything's in-app search but that doesn't transfer to Fluent Search.