Search results – show only matches, hide the rest?

[daviescj]

Forgive me if this is covered elsewhere, but I didn’t find it. One thing I would find useful is to be able to search a file and have all the matching lines shown, with the non-matching lines collapsed or hidden. I would find this handy when searching large code files, for example.

Is this possible? Thanks.

[CrashNBurn]

That’s an interesting idea, if the Output bar could be used for Search in the current file and/or all open files. As opposed to the current behaviour wherein you can only use the output bar if you do a Directory Search (Ctrl+Shift+F)

[daviescj]

I found a macro that does it in the Library section: “Title: Macro that extracts lines that contain the specified string”. Does exactly what I want. Its reverse is also available (show non-matching lines).

[CrashNBurn]

Cool, I’ll havta check it out.

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