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Add option + shortcut like private mode to toggle between regex and non-regex search

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Describe the bug

Searching for ( or ) (along with strings pre or suffixed to the character) will not appear in a clipboard.

For programmers this is irksome as searching for a function like function( when the text def function(stuff) is in the clipboard results in nothing.

How To Reproduce

Have an item in the clipboard with either ( or ) and search.

Versions

org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history GNOME Shell 42.0 GCH Version: 15 org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history cache-only-favorites false org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history cache-size 100 org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history clear-history @as [] org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history confirm-clear true org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history disable-down-arrow true org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history display-mode 0 org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history enable-keybindings true org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history history-size 1000 org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history move-item-first true org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history next-entry @as [] org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history notify-on-copy false org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history paste-on-selection false org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history prev-entry @as [] org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history private-mode false org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history process-primary-selection false org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history strip-text true org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history toggle-menu [‘Insert’] org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history toggle-private-mode [‘<Super><Shift>P’] org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history topbar-preview-size 10 org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history window-width-percentage 25

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Created a year ago
Comments:8 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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SUPERCILEXcommented, May 10, 2022

Sounds like a plan to me!

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SUPERCILEXcommented, Aug 13, 2022

I don’t have enough time, so I went with a dumb solution: just search both the raw query and its regex equivalent. This will over-return search results, but you should almost always be able to refine your search using regex (unless you’re searching for regex in which case things get weird).