wezterm/docs/config/lua/keyassignment/Search.md

Search

since: 20200607-144723-74889cd4

This action will trigger the search overlay for the current tab. It accepts a typed pattern string as its parameter, allowing for Regex, CaseSensitiveString and CaseInSensitiveString as pattern matching types.

The supported regular expression syntax is described here.

local wezterm = require 'wezterm'
local act = wezterm.action

return {
  keys = {
    -- search for things that look like git hashes
    {
      key = 'H',
      mods = 'SHIFT|CTRL',
      action = act.Search {
        Regex = '[a-f0-9]{6,}',
      },
    },
    -- search for the lowercase string "hash" matching the case exactly
    {
      key = 'H',
      mods = 'SHIFT|CTRL',
      action = act.Search { CaseSensitiveString = 'hash' },
    },
    -- search for the string "hash" matching regardless of case
    {
      key = 'H',
      mods = 'SHIFT|CTRL',
      action = act.Search { CaseInSensitiveString = 'hash' },
    },
  },
}

Learn more about the search overlay

since: 20220624-141144-bd1b7c5d

You may now use wezterm.action.Search("CurrentSelectionOrEmptyString") to have the search take the currently selected text as the item to search.

The selection text is adjusted to be a single line.