msirringhaus

I would really like to have that feature as well. PR #566 seems to be dead in the water currently, possibly because it is unclear at the moment how to...

Relabeling the `Scroll Mode` to `Search Mode` and putting everything there sounds like a good idea (or mayhaps even `Search/Scroll Mode`). I'd be in principle interested in implementing this (be...

Ok, so I found some the time to play with this a bit. My current state is that I can search and highlight the current viewport with backward- and forward-search,...

That could be done, yes. I opted for 3 different internal modes ("Scroll", "Enter search", "Search"), to be able to show the user if we are currently searching for something...

Yep, can do. It is all still very hacky and prototype-y anyways. We'll see what the next rainy weekend will bring :-).

> @msirringhaus has it been raining? :P 'Sadly', no :-) But HackWeek is in 20 days. I should probably open a WIP-PR soon, though, with what I already have, so...

> It seems like what this adds is the ability to select multiple regions corresponding to a search result, is that right? That is correct. Its the `ctrl+d`-feature of sublime....

In principle yes. First off, it might be way less work to just review HEAD as it is. Most of the commits are me reworking my own features a bazillion...

I have it under `$HOME/.config/xi/plugins/`, there it works.

Have you tried setting the approriate [XDG environment variables](https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html)? I think xi-term and xi-core are using those.