Re: Use Vertico + consult to do the search for an exact word.

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

>> I don't use consult myself but I guess the search string is a regular
>> expression.  So when you want to search for an exact word, use \bid\b
>> to find all occurrences of the word id.
>
> I've tried this trick, but it cannot match the results like `$id$', as
> shown in the attached screenshot, from where you can see that the
> entry indexed by the circle numbered 1 doesn't appear in the
> minibuffer's matching list.

That's because $ is a word-character in the syntax-table of the mode you
are using in that buffer.  You can try
\([^a-zA-Z]\|\b\)id\([^a-zA-Z]\|\b\) which should also find $id$ and
1id02.

Bye,
Tassilo