Other Searching Enhancements in Epsilon 12

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Other Searching Enhancements in Epsilon 12

Epsilon for Unix can now search manual pages with the new search-man-pages command. This also works in the Cygwin environment under Windows.

Epsilon can now restrict searching and replacing to a highlighted region (including rectangular regions). See the variables search-in-region and replace-in-region.

In Info mode, searching with Ctrl-s and Ctrl-r can now continue the search into other nodes when there are no more matches in the current node.

The grep and file-query-replace commands now skip over files whose names match a regular expression pattern in the new grep-ignore-file-pattern variable. By default it makes these commands ignore files in the /proc hierarchy in Unix. The similar grep-ignore-file-basename variable more conveniently restricts only a file's basename, not its path. These complement the grep-ignore-file-extensions variable of previous versions (which now excludes the archive formats .zip and .tgz too).

The grep-ignore-file-types variable makes these commands ignore files that are actually devices, named pipes, or other sorts of special files. By default it makes Epsilon only search in plain files.

The use-grep-ignore-file-variables variable (formerly named use-grep-ignore-file-extensions) switches off all of the above restrictions.

You can now modify what grep does when a file has been modified on disk, using the grep-on-changed-file variable.

Grep can now be configured to include the file's timestamp with each match using the grep-include-timestamp variable.

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