Request: search by / can use regex

[stawari]

I'm opening this issue because:

• [ ] I'll report a bug
• [ x ] I'll propose a new feature

Description

Hi Team, I'm using vim-vixen now for replace vimperator in firefox, and one function i like in vimperator is selected text then copied to clipboard (without mouse) by using visual and carot mode. But It's done have in here, so i think another way that use auto select and auto copy selected text. And one thing I need is regex search, so I can search all sentense like: *It.ect! for "It looks like this is your first time opening an issue in this project!" Can we do it?

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[FergusFettes]

I'd also like basic regex search facility. I tried searching for \d\{4,\} to find longer numbers on the page, no dice. Thx!

[SkyLeach]

I need this badly enough that it brought me here after I searched open pull requests for a pending change.

I'm looking into it myself in the meantime.

[Salomanuel]

that would be amazing, one example that made me land on this issue is:

"I want to search for the string env"

vim-vixen

1. type /env
2. all the 5234 results with environment pop up and I will never find what I'm looking for
3. it's useless

vim

1. type /env$
2. only get the results that contain the string env without any further characters
3. it's so much useful and I'm so pleased that I radiate happiness

it would be awesome to have it implemented

[nbennett320]

@SkyLeach Were there any developments on this? I would also love this feature, am just beginning to look into it myself. Certainly this should be possible, as there are many extensions which allow searching by regular expression.